NProfiler / News: Recent posts

I have been performing some research into code coverage analysis of .NET applications and so I am adding a coverage analysis tool to the profiler.
The profiler itself will be getting a proper release when I finally get around to fixing the call tree display bug and then get NInstall ( http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/chimpinstall ) to version 1.1 so that I can create an installer.

You can now browse the call trees for each individual thread in your application and the only remaining feature for version one is exception support for the call tree. Expect version one to be released early next week.

The next release will be next week and it will add support for profiling multi-threaded applications.

This is the first release of NProfiler, an application profiler for .NET. This version is a proof of concept version that supports profiling of single threaded CLR applications and will show both function times for all functions called by your application and a call tree that shows the order in which functions were called and their execution times.

The first release of NProfiler is waiting for my VS.NET download to complete and then final testing with version 1 of .NET. Unless anything serious comes up with the transition to the releaseversion we are going to release on the 19th January.

The first release is nearning completion with the profile able to display the results in an almost useful format for analysing an application. The first release will be sometime next week.

An early version of the code for a .NET profiler has been added to CVS.
The profiler consists of two modules, a C++ COM server that records the profiling information and a C# IDE for both controlling the recording and anlysing the data. This initial version in capable of recording a large number of metrics about an application and then display a call graph with function times.
There will be a binary release made when the IDE is capable of spawning the profiling run itself and then show a more detailed function time breakdown.