Profiling Applications
Profiling is nothing more than the analysis of performance data collected from an application while it is running. Profiling is a useful technique for pinpointing the slowest performing areas of code so that they can be targeted for code improvements. Microsoft has a tool designed to view and track performance data: the Performance Monitor MMC snap-in. This can be launched from a command prompt by just typing “perfmon.” The Performance Monitor application feeds off objects called performance counters. These are individual, instrumented pieces of the core operating system that expose a numerical value representing some dimension of performance.
Because the .NET Framework ships with a comprehensive set of performance counters, ...
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