PerfView Tutorial
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A series of video tutorials by Visual Studio performance architect Vance Morrison on how to use the PerfView profiling tool to gather data for CPU performance of a simple .NET program.
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2 minutes, 24 secondsPerfView Tutorial 0 - Getting PerfViewJul 17, 2012 at 7:22 AM
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If you have an internet connection you are just a few clicks away from installing perfView. This video shows you just how easy it is. It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. After downloading PerfView start with Tutorial 1:… -
5 minutes, 37 secondsPerfView Tutorial 1 - Collecting data with the Run commandJul 17, 2012 at 8:22 AM 13
This is the first of a series of video tutorials on how to use the PerfView profiling tool to gather data for a CPU performance data on a simple .NET program. It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. If you don't have PerfView… -
16 minutes, 45 secondsPerfView Tutorial 2 - A Simple CPU Performance InvestigationJul 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM 0
This is the second of a series of video tutorials on how to use the PerfView profiling tool. This tutorial assumes you have watch the first tutorial on collecting data. It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. The next tutoral will… -
5 minutes, 16 secondsPerfView Tutorial 3 - Resolving SymbolsJul 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM 0
This is the third in a series of video tutorials on how to use the PerfView profiling tool. It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. A big part of an effective performance investigation is getting symbolic information (method names)… -
13 minutes, 7 secondsPerfVIew Tutorial 4 - Grouping And FoldingJul 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM 0
This is the fourth in a series of video tutorials on how to use the PerfView profiling tool. It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. This tutoral is on PerfView's grouping and folding operators, which are essential to finding the… -
6 minutes, 8 secondsPerfView Tutorial 5 - The Drilling Into FeatureAug 06, 2012 at 12:09 PM 0
This is the fifth in a series of video tutorials on how to use the PerfView profiling tool. It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable. This tutoral is on PerfView's 'Drill Into' feature, which allows you to selectively ungroup a set of… -
6 minutes, 49 secondsPerfView Tutorial 1.1 Data Collection for Server ScenariosAug 07, 2012 at 8:30 AM 0
In the first tutorial we used the 'Run' command to caputure data while an executable ran. However for server scenarios you simply want to explicitly state when to start and stop data collection. It is also likely that you will need to ask someone else (e.g. operations staff) to collect the data… -
15 minutes, 50 secondsPerfview Tutorial 6 - The Event Viewer BasicsAug 18, 2012 at 6:11 PM 0
In the first tutorial we used the 'Run' command to caputure data while an executable ran. In tutorial 2-5 we learned how to use the StackViewer to do a CPU investigation. In this tutorial we learn more about a very different view called the EventViewer that allows you to look at ALL the data in each… -
5 minutes, 54 secondsPerfView Tutorial 7 - Using the Event Viewer in ASP.NET ScenariosAug 18, 2012 at 6:12 PM 0
In the previous video learned the basics of using the event viewer. In this video we use that knowledge in a common scenario: investigating the performance of an ASP.NET server scenario. The video discusses the ASP.NET ETW events as well important fields like the 'ContextID' field that let you… -
11 minutes, 43 secondsPerfView Tutorial 8 - Generating Your Own Events with EventSourcesAug 18, 2012 at 6:12 PM 0
It may be that the ASP.NET events discussed in the previous video are diagnosting the performance of you service. However it not (or you are not using ASP.NET), you will want to log your own ETW events. This video shows you how easy it is to do this from C# by using a V4.5 Runtime class called…
