Instruction Pointers (IPs) View - sampling data
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
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The IPs view of sampling data lists performance data for the assembly instructions that were directly executing when the samples were collected in the profiling run.
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| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Process ID | The process ID (PID) of the profiling run. |
| Process Name | The name of the process. |
| Module Name | The name of the module that contains the instruction. |
| Module Path | The path of the module that contains the instruction. |
| Source File | The source file that contains the instruction. |
| Function Name | The name of the function that contains the instruction. |
| Function Line Number | The line number of the start of this function in the source file. |
| Function Address | The starting memory address of the function in the loaded binary. |
| Source Line Begin | The starting line number in the source file at which this sample was collected. |
| Source Line End | The ending line number in the source file at which this sample was collected. |
| Source Character Begin | The offset of the starting character in the source file line at which this sample was collected. |
| Source Character End | The offset of the ending character in the source file line at which this sample was collected. |
| Instruction Address | The address of the instruction in the loaded binary. |
| Exclusive Samples | The total number of samples that were collected when the instruction was executing. |
| Exclusive Samples % | The percentage of all samples in the profiling run that were collected when the instruction was executing. |