What is the best way to debug performance problems?

Question

I\'m writing a plug-in for another program in C#.NET, and am having performance issues where commands take a lot longer then I would. The plug-in reacts to events in the host pr

Answer 1

Visual Studio Team System has a profiler baked in, its far from perfect, but for simple applications you can kind of get it to work.

Recently I have had the most success with EQATECs free profiler, or rolling my own tiny profiling class where needed.

Also, there have been quite a few questions about profilers in that past see: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=site:stackoverflow.com+.net+profiler&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=