How can I profile Signed Assemblies with VS 2010 or VS 2013

Question

I have a website that uses AjaxControlToolkit.dll and Log4Net.dll.

When I try to run the performance profiling tool in VS 2010 on it it gives me the following warnin

Answer 1

ghusse linked to a blog post giving the answer. The answer is described there. As he points out, you have to use a post-instrument event on each signed assembly.

It's easiest to call sn.exe directly:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\sn.exe" -R [pathOfDll] [pathOfSNK]

Note that [pathOfDll] is located in the directory obj\Debug associated to the project.