Using Custom Profiling APIs
Like the debugging APIs that the .NET Framework supports, an interface is available that can be used to profile .NET applications. The primary documentation for the profiling interface is in the Tools Developers Guide in a file called Profiling.doc. The API consists of two COM interfaces: ICorProfilerCallback and ICorProfilerInfo. To build a profiler, the programmer must implement the methods that are part of ICorProfilerCallback. The profiler is implemented as an in-process COM DLL. This DLL implements the ICorProfilerCallback interface. ICorProfilerInfo is an interface that is implemented in the CLR and queried for during the initialization of the profiler.
The SDK ships with two sample profilers that illustrate ...
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