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Brian I'm test driving an automated performance profiling process whereby we kick off the command line profiler on a daily basis and then use soapUI to create a load on the machine with ANTS profiler capturing the performance statistics by monitoring the IIS site for activity. I've actually gone the route of implementing a project like you've described, and it works, but unfortunately the command line profiler is not feature equivalent to the UI so I thought it might be related to the fact that I'm using a project. Would be nice though to just use the command line without a project. There seems to be no reason to use a project as almost all the project options are anyways specified explicitly via the command line itself. Please consider adding it to make this kind of batch operation testing easier. / comments

Brian I'm test driving an automated performance profiling process whereby we kick off the command line profiler on a daily basis and then use soapUI to create a load on the machine with ANTS profil...

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Both - licensing conditions and hopefully discounts as well. W.r.t the world cup - thx. We all thoroughly enjoyed watching and attending the matches. Vibe was awesome. / comments

Both - licensing conditions and hopefully discounts as well. W.r.t the world cup - thx. We all thoroughly enjoyed watching and attending the matches. Vibe was awesome.

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Andrew I can confirm that I don't get the exception when using the /methodLevel option on the command line. I would ideally like to have the line-level details via die command line profiler as well. Why does this work via the UI though? Shouldn't we hit the same problems? / comments

Andrew I can confirm that I don't get the exception when using the /methodLevel option on the command line. I would ideally like to have the line-level details via die command line profiler as wel...

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Is there a link to an article somewhere that describes the process of creating a mini-dump? / comments

Is there a link to an article somewhere that describes the process of creating a mini-dump?

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Remember this only happens when running the profiler in command line mode and I get not exception dialog box popping up. Had a look in the log folder and the command line profiler didn't seem to write out anything there either. What additional info can I provide? / comments

Remember this only happens when running the profiler in command line mode and I get not exception dialog box popping up. Had a look in the log folder and the command line profiler didn't seem to w...

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Thanks - I understand all of these limitations and we are currently running the latest ANTS 6 Performance Profiler EAP which already supports the performance profiling of SL 4 applications. However, in all of my research, I haven't found any mention on whether you will actually be able to do memory profiling as well. So my first question is still - can you do memory profiling in SL 4 (i.e. does it support the hooks to allow it) and if it does, do you have a roadmap w.r.t adding this to ANTS Memory profiler? Thanks [image] / comments

Thanks - I understand all of these limitations and we are currently running the latest ANTS 6 Performance Profiler EAP which already supports the performance profiling of SL 4 applications. Howeve...

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Thanks, please add that to the list of wanted features. Also, do you plan on adding comparison reports as well that will allow me to compare a report against a base line to see the improvements made? Thanks / comments

Thanks, please add that to the list of wanted features. Also, do you plan on adding comparison reports as well that will allow me to compare a report against a base line to see the improvements ma...

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The way to profile an IIS session is to initially do so from the UI and save out a project file. You can then use this to initiate profiling with the /project option. Any additional settings you specify on the command line will override those in the project file. 100% Working fine although my project specifies File I/O and SQL Server Reads/Writes and I'm not getting the info without overriding it from the command line. This seems to be related to Question 7 though. It would be possible to add something to the tool that would make it launch another process if that would help with this. I think people might find that useful although as I posted later on, I worked around the issue using the AsyncTask. This works fine. I fire off the profiler with a Timeout period and then fire off the soapUI LoadTestRunner. The results are written out after the timeout period. Is this from results saved via the command line or just directly through the UI? From the UI If it's in the UI, are the methods with source showing up in bold? If they aren't then it doesn't think that they have associated source code for whatever reason, most likely because it can't find the pdb debugging data. There are a few reasons this can happen with ASP.NET pages, the most usual being that debugging is turned off in the config file. Some methods show up in bold when you hover the mouse over them, but others don't. We are running in Debug mode, so debugging not turned off for the app. Well, I'm working on attach to process at the moment, and I need to move on to Silverlight 4 support after that, but after all of that I should be in a position to start looking at these things. Please focus on SL 4 support, we need that ASAP :-) Ah, good point. No, they're not at the moment, as they were added later on. They should definitely be in the final version, though (depending on how time works out, the initial revision might only support viewing the data through the UI, though I'll look in to adding it to the XML report as well) Getting it to display in the UI would be absolutely great. It allows me to profile the application from the command line that is faster than doing it through the UI. I specify a Timeout, exercise the app and then load up the results. Question 8 I have another question - comparisons between performance runs. Do you support this or plan to support this in future? I know dotTrace has the ability and if I remember Compuware DevPartner as well. / comments

The way to profile an IIS session is to initially do so from the UI and save out a project file. You can then use this to initiate profiling with the /project option. Any additional settings you...

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cjlotz wrote: Question 4 Thinking about the CI process, how would one go about profiling your application. I'm using a MSBuild script to drive our whole CI process. I can succesfully fire off the command line profiler, but the problem is that the script will suspend the build process until it times out (if specified) or else hang indefinitely. I've made some further progress w.r.t the above mentioned issue. I discovered an AsynExec MSBuild task that works quite nicely and I've incorporated that into the build process without any problems. This allows me to start the Profiler and then launch soapUI command line test runner to drive the web services. Question 7 I've got a another question though. Through the UI it is possible to select File I/O and SQL Server Reads/Writes when profiling the application. I can't seem to find command line arguments for these options. Are they available from the command line? Thanks - things are starting to take shape nicely :-) / comments

cjlotz wrote: Question 4 Thinking about the CI process, how would one go about profiling your application. I'm using a MSBuild script to drive our whole CI process. I can succesfully fire off...

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