Profiling Windows Service

cgruenznercgruenzner Posts: 10
edited May 18, 2005 1:16PM in ANTS Performance Profiler Previous Versions
Hi,

I wrote an C# Portmonitor which is loaded by the Windows Spooler Service (spoolss.exe). Is it possible to profile the portmonitor with ANTS 2? I can't find something like "Attach to process..." in the menu or the project settings. Starting spoolss.exe from the command line isn't possible.
Best regards,
Carsten Grünzner
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  • Brian DonahueBrian Donahue Posts: 6,590 Bronze 1
    Hello,

    If the executable that you want to profile is normally started through the services control panel, you can't profile it, unfortunately. You'd need to have a normal executable that is not a service to call your code and then profile that.

    ANTS Profiler can't cope with services yet because it doesn't know how to start them.
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  • Brian DonahueBrian Donahue Posts: 6,590 Bronze 1
    ANTS Profiler 2.5 will give you the ability to profile Windows Services. It can stop and start the service that you choose to profile and produce profiling information.
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