dot.NET Profiler Releases

I was on the road the last few days counseling our clients on how performance issues can be detected in .NET applications. Upon perusing my last entry once more, I realized that my account was not complete, since I haven't yet informed you about the new features SpeedTrace 3.3 is going to bring to the market soon. Therefore, I'd like to just provide you with a short outline of some of the coolest features this tool has.

SpeedTrace 3.3 features:

• Tracing of multiple processes:
  You can run several instances of SpeedTrace in parallel, so you can profile/trace different processes simultaneously in order to help you to focus on certain segments of your application at the same time.
  
• Call history scoping:
  SpeedTrace enables you to open partial traces just to see the callees of a given function by focusing exclusively on the calls made within a given segment.
  
• Generating trace output from a terminated process:
  An application that terminates unexpectedly may cause a real headache and waste a lot of time if you cannot analyze its cause properly. Due to SpeedTrace’s robust architecture, it yields reliable results thorough to the last drop even when your application crashes.
  
• Hotspot filter:
  Whenever you activate it, SpeedTrace will only display the nodes with own times higher than the specified threshold.
  
• Comparing profile results:
  It is important to know whether changes made within your code have a positive upshot or predominantly negative side effects. You can compare profile results with counterpoint method timings and allocation issues.
  
• Triggers: Specify the method that will start or stop the profiling process in order to analyze specific behavior within specified boundaries.
  
• Black box filter:
  3rd party components that cannot be improved always flood the analysis with irrelevant information. SpeedTrace, however, can encapsulate these components by just providing transitions for the ones you need.
  
• Data trace:
  SpeedTrace helps you to locate bugs (e.g. programming errors, deadlocks, missing or wrong version of DLL) easily, allowing you to examine the data flow channeled through the various functions.
  
• Code location in Microsoft Visual Studio:
  Whenever you find an issue, a quick tune of the code is required. You can always click on the Source view in SpeedTrace to locate your code in Visual Studio.
  

After several months of intense work, the development team of SpeedTrace is introducing a new version of SpeedTrace dot.NET Profiler and Tracer. Although it is not a release version, it is robust enough to prove its new capabilities. We have called it

SpeedTrace dot.NET Profiler and Tracer 3.3 Preview Beta

This version is running until the end of June, so start downloading and check out its new features and capabilities today!

If you have recently downloaded the other version of our .net profiler (3.2), you will be receiving an email with the direct link to our new version in no time. However, if you do not want to wait for this email, please click here and get SpeedTrace dot.NET Profiler and Tracer 3.3 Preview Beta now!

In order to have a better release, we would appreciate your feedback on suggested improvements. Please send us your comments.

We have recently released a maintenance for SpeedTrace dot.NET Profiler 3.2 — v3.2.14 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

These two versions are available here in the SpeedTrace blog or under http://www.ipcas.com/trace-and-profile/download.html

This release contains several improvements, few minor fixes and additional features.

In regard to the new additional features, you can now profile multiple processes by having several instances of SpeedTrace recording your running processes at the same time. Moreover, you won't have to contend anymore with sudden terminations of dot.NET processes without yielding information. Now, you'll also be able to generate trace output from terminated processes without any hassle.