Can we profile a dll of Class library?

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• Robert C Redgate › Posts: 425 Silver 2

  September 18, 2007 3:35AM

  Hi,
  
  Yes, you can. If you profile the application that uses the DLL, then any .NET DLLs it uses will also be profiled. Make sure that you've also got the .PDB file associated with your class library in the same location if you want to see the source code.
  
  Hope that helps,
  Robert

  Robert Chipperfield
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• grynearson Posts: 2

  October 9, 2007 9:24AM

  Is it possible to profile just the dll, for example, a dll being tested in NUnit?

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• Robert C Redgate › Posts: 425 Silver 2

  October 9, 2007 9:30AM

  Hi,
  
  Whilst you can't directly profile just the DLL, you can choose to include or exclude namespaces, which normally does the trick. So, for instance, if you're profiling something in nunit, then you could exclude the namespace "NUnit".
  
  If you're profiling a debug build of your DLL, then it's even easier - just choose to profile "only .NET methods with source code", and it should automatically only profile your library.
  
  Hope that helps,
  Robert

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• Brian Donahue Posts: 6,590 Bronze 1

  October 9, 2007 9:55AM

  You may be interested in this, which is specific to Nunit:

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• grynearson Posts: 2

  October 9, 2007 12:04PM

  Thanks Robert and Brian. That answers my question, and lets me do just whata I wanted.

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