Overviews (performance tools)

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This section provides conceptual and terminology overviews for Visual Studio Profiling Tools, which you can use to measure the performance characteristics of an application under development.

In this section

• Performance session overview

Learn the basics of performance profiling with the Visual Studio Profiling Tools.

• Performance session properties

Describes the properties that can be used to configure a performance session.

• Understand sampling data values

Learn the data values that are reported when you use the sampling profiling method.

• Understand instrumentation data values

Learn the data values that are reported when you use the instrumentation profiling method.

• Understand memory allocation and object lifetime data values

Learn the data values that are reported when you use the .NET memory profiling method.

• Understand resource contention data values

Learn the data values that are reported when you use the concurrency profiling method.

• Performance Explorer window

Describes the window that is used to configure and start performance sessions.

• CPU and Windows counters

Learn about the CPU and Windows performance counters that can provide additional performance data in a performance session.

• Profiling and Windows Vista security

Learn the issues and steps that are required to collect sampling data and to profile cross-session applications on Windows Vista.

See also

• Getting started
• Performance Explorer