Stand-alone Profiler for VS2005

I’m using VS2005 Professional Edition that doesn’t include Performance Test Tool set. So I have to download & install the stand-alone Performance tool set. It requires a lot of manual work:

(I am using Sampling mode instead of Tracing mode because I think sampling is enough)

0. Put the performance tool binary path into the environment variable “path”

1. Build your application with “/profile” enabled

2. Start the ‘elevated command prompt’ from Accessories by “Running as Administrator” in Win7 – or you will suffer from privilege problems

3. Go into your application dir and run “vsperfcmd /start:sample /output:XXX.vsp /launch:XXX.exe”

4. After your application is done its work, run “vsperfcmd /shutdown”. You will get a .vsp file after this

5. Generate your analysis files: “vsperfreport /summary:all XXX.vsp”.

6. Check out the resulted csv files