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JetBrains Releases dotTrace Profiler 3.0
ITPro Today
October 30, 2009
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JetBrains Releases dotTrace Profiler 3.0
JetBrains announced the general availability of JetBrainsdotTrace 3.0. This release of the company s intelligent profiling tool forMicrosoft .NET applications features an increase in the number of performanceprofiling tools available to its users, a new way to catch memory leaks, andother enhancements and improvements.
The new profilingmodes introduced in dotTrace 3.0 include sampling profiling for fastest,minimum-overhead profiling, and routine thread profiling for precision ofmeasurement. dotTrace now offers a versatile set of fourperformance-profiling tools.
In the memoryprofiling department, more memory leaks cannow be spotted with the help of dotTrace. Developers can see all objects thatwere finalized without being properly disposed by the code, thus being able tocatch intricate memory issues. Overall, developers profiling options areexpanded with regard to both the application profiling process and working withprofiling results.
Performance profiling enhancements in dotTrace 3.0include:
Measuring routine thread time, in addition tothe existing wall time profiling mode.
Fast sampling profiling for getting the fastestpicture of an application s performance with the lowest possible overhead.
The ability to save individual parts ofsnapshots (tab saving).
Filtering and folding function call chains inHot Spots and Back Traces views and filtering function calls in Plain View.
Memory profiling enhancements in dotTrace 3.0 include:
Non-disposed but finalized objects are detected.
The possibility to merge strongly-connectedobjects.
Navigation to classes source in source preview.
Information about reachable and held objects isnow serialized to disk, eliminating the necessity to recompute it on eachmemory snapshot opening.
Other enhancements include:
Profiling ASP.NET applications from MicrosoftVisual Studio.
Profiling ASP.NET applications using VisualStudio Development Web-server.
Automatic creation of .config files forprofiling modes not supported for the .NET 1.1 Framework.
General information about dotTrace 3.0 is available at http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/index.html?dt30pr.Information on new features is located at http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/features/newfeatures.html?dt30pr.The release is available for download at http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/download/.A free 10-day evaluation license enabling full functionality can be requestedat the same URL. JetBrains dotTrace can be purchased online at http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/buy/index.html?dt30pr.
JetBrains
Price: Newsingle-user licenses, US$499; upgrades, US$149. Purchases of dotTrace 2.0 madeafter April 15, 2007qualify for a free upgrade.
Web Site: http://www.jetbrains.com
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