Useful tool: CLR Profiler

[Harsha Vardhan]

I could not make it to the last meeting, but wanted to pass on info about a tool I have been using a lot lately. It's a MS tool called "CLR Profiler" and can be used to find memory leaks in your apps, or just to basically investigate control flow in your app.

You can download it from here (it says the tool is for .Net 2.0 framework, but it works fine profiling 3.5 apps):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a362781c-3870-43be-8926-862b40aa0cd0&displaylang=en

For such a useful tool, the documentation is pretty sketchy. The primary documentation seems to be a MS-Word file that installs with the tool.

A MS engineer has made a video introducing the tool; download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CD5AA57C-9CD1-45AB-AA4B-8DC586D30938&displaylang=en

Some related blog articles:
http://bittermanandy.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/tools-of-the-trade-part-three-clrprofiler/
http://blog.topholt.com/2008/04/08/clr-profiler-is-your-friend-lazy-loading-is-your-foe/

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