ANTS Performance Profiler Task¶
Profiles the performance of an application using Reg Gate's ANTS Performance Profiler.
ANTS Performance Profiler is a tool to profile the performance of an application.
This application is available from http://www.red-gate.com/. Pro edition of 1.6 or later is required.
Version¶
Available from version 1.6
Examples¶
Minimalist example
1<antsPerformance>
2 <app>someapp.exe</app>
3</antsPerformance>Configuration Elements¶
| Element | Description | Type | Required | Default | Version |
| inlining | Whether to allow .NET to inline functions. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| app | The application to profile. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| appArgs | The arguments to pass to the application. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| avoidTrivial | Whether to avoid trivial functions or not. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| baseDir | The base directory to use. If omitted this will default to the working directory of the project. | String | No | Project Working Directory | 1.6 |
| callTreeHtml | The location to write the calltree file to - uses HTML format. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| callTreeXml | The location to write the calltree file to - uses XML format. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| compensate | Whether to get the profiler to compensate for its own overhead. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| comPlus | The name of the COM\+ service to profile. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| data | The location to write the data file to (requires desktop application to view). | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| description | Description used for the visualisation of the buildstage, if left empty the process name will be shown. | String | No | The task/publisher name. | 16 |
| dynamicValues | The dynamic values to use for the task. | Dynamic Values array | No | None | 16 |
| environment | A set of environment variables set for commands that are executed. Each variable should be specified as . |
Environment Variable array | No | ||
| executable | The executable to use. | String | No | Profile | 1.6 |
| overwrite | Whether to overwrite any existing files or not. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| includeSource | Whether to include source code in the results. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| subProcesses | Whether to include sub-processes. | Boolean | No | false | 1.6 |
| methodLevel | Perform method level profiling. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| onlyWithSource | Only profile methods that have source code. | Boolean | No | false | 1.6 |
| output | The output analysis file. | String | No | AntsPerformanceAnalysis.txt | 1.6 |
| priority | The priority class of the spawned process. | String - one of: * Normal * Idle * High * RealTime * BelowNormal * AboveNormal |
No | Normal | 1.6 |
| profilerTimeout | The time-out period in seconds for the profiler. | Int32 | No | 120 | 1.6 |
| publish | Whether to publish all files generated from this task. If the files are not published then they will not be viewable in the dashboard unless copied over by another mechanism. |
Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| quiet | Whether to disable all output or not. | Boolean | No | false | 1.6 |
| sqlIO | Whether to try to record SQL and File I/O events. | Boolean | No | false | 1.6 |
| service | The name of the windows service to profile. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| silverlight | The URL of a site containing a silverlight application to profile. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| simplify | Whether to simplify certain complicated stack traces. | Boolean | No | true | 1.6 |
| summaryCsv | The location to write the summary file to - uses CSV format. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| summaryHtml | The location to write the summary file to - uses HTML format. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| summaryXml | The location to write the summary file to - uses XML format. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
| threshold | The threshold level. | Nullable`1 | No | none | 1.6 |
| timeout | The time-out period in seconds for the entire task. | Int32 | No | 600 | 1.6 |
| level | The level to trace at. | String - one of: * Line * Method |
No | Method | 1.6 |
| useSampling | Whether to use sampling for generating approximate results quickly. | Boolean | No | false | 1.6 |
| verbose | Whether to display verbose output or not. | Boolean | No | false | 1.6 |
| xmlArgs | A file containing the args for the profiler in an XML specification. | String | No | none | 1.6 |
Automatically Generated¶
Documentation generated on Monday, 26 May 2014 at 7:18:03 AM