Recent changes to feature-requests

NProf from the command line with XML output

Joannes Vermorel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:36:16 -0000

It would be really nice if nprof could be run from the command line producing some XML output. It would simplify the integration within build processes for example.

Time consumed

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:31:21 -0000

It vould be nice to have a column that says the exact ammount of time used by each call in milliseconds.

Restricting profiler to specific methods and Call Graphs

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:40:14 -0000

Is there any way to restrict profiler to specific methods?
Right now one can exclude certain namespaces after
the program has finished execution but if the profiler can
be restricted to perform timing calculations for specific
methods/classes/namespaces it might speed up the
task of profiling in complex projects. An idea for doing
this would be to use attributes to mark
methods/classes/namespaces for profiling (like
HarnessIt does for unit testing). If this cannot be done
by the current GUI then is there provision in the API to
handle it; so basically someone who wants this feature
can do so himself?

Another feature thats worth having is a Call Graph (see
DevPartner or VB Watch 2 Protector); a way of
depicting the flow of control from one method to another.
This, I assume, is possible to code externally if needed.
But, if there is future plan for this then let me know.

ahmad.kabani@unitron.com

chronological callstack reports

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:10:42 -0000

I would actually like for the app to display so that
it's easier to see what got called by what and where is
stopped etc:

this code:

method1 ()
if date.isgreaterthan("jan/01/2005") then
method2()
method5()
method6()
end method1

method2 ()
method3()
method4()
end method2

method5 ()
method2()
end method5()

would correspond to this printout:

method1
method2
method3
method4
method5
method2
method3
method4
method6
-

or something like that.

Really what I'm looking for is a way to see what the
flow of execution was while my app was running. It's
hard sometimes when you're working on a GUI app that
throws events all over the place and spawns new threads
and all of that.

I want a chronological (as in, in the order things
happened, including an option to include threads
chronologically or not) report of the execution flow of
my app.

I think this would look really good in a treeview, so
that when you expanded the nodes it would tell you
information about the frame when it started and when it
ended and stuff like that. (how long it took to run
that frame start to finish would be good too!)

I'd be willing to help with this but I'd need a
walkthrough of the app to get started. I don't really
see how everything fits together.

flexible asp.net profiling start

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:43:03 -0000

Hello:

I have an ASP.Net application that I would like to
profile with your software.

It has a lot of code that runs the first time a page is
requested after the aspnet is reset. I do not wish to
include this in the profiled information.

Is there some way to have a manual start point to
profiling, by pressing a button on the GUI, to skip
past code I do not wish to profile, and start logging
information at a later point in the application run?
Or, a button to clear the results collected up to the
current point?

Thanks!

Mat

mvorNOSP_AMding@yahoo.com

Profile PocketPC Applications

Anonymous — Fri, 14 May 2004 07:01:35 -0000

Profile PocketPC Applications, which are actually running
on the device, not the emulator as the CPU specs of a
PocketPC device are quite different (e.g. no floating
point unit is one), so that one can optimize for PocketPC.

File logs of the console output

Joannes Vermorel — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:59:00 -0000

I have tried NProf 0.8 with a multithreaded console
application. Here is my problem: my application
encountered unhandled exception with very low
frequency (due to a rare sync configuration). So far it
has nothing to do with NProf.

But the bug result was a window pop-up (like "JIT class
not registered , click OK to continue"), and when I
clicked OK the actual exception was displayed in the
NProf console window and immediately after the console
window was closed.

This situation was annoying because I really wanted to
be able to read the exception message.

Could it be possible to log in some file the console
output of NProf ?

Joannes

Profile ASP.NET Web Applications

Michael Ridgway — Tue, 20 May 2003 10:52:47 -0000

This might be difficult, but it would be fantastic if you
could profile ASP.NET web applications.

At the moment you can only profile .EXE's.

I am not sure of the difficulties (I am sure there are lots)
but can you hook into IIS using an ISAPI plug in to
profile Web Apps?

So "IIS" calls the "profier" which calls the "ASP.NET
Web App". ie. somehow get yourself inbetween the 2 of
them.

Not sure how else you could do it.