How to get: line-by-line information in the code profiler in VS2010 Ultimate

Question

In Chris's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/chrissc/default.aspx, in his article entitled

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available Now! , his figure 2 shows code profiler output that gives line-by-line information such as the percentage of time spent executing a particular line.  It also appears color-coded to show lines with the heaviest execution percentage.  In my version of Beta 2, I can get the lines to show in Function Details view, but there is no information about their execution profile and no color coding.  Though I have searched (with Bing!, of course) for information about this feature and how to turn it on, whether it is available for native C++ code as well as for C# code, and so forth, I cannot find anything helpful.  I would appreciate a pointer to documentation, a tutorial, or something else that would help get me started using this tool.

Answer 1

Hi Doc,

This feature is only available if you use the profiler's sampling mode.  We do not give line-by-line execution statistics when using the instrumentation mode, so please be sure that you're doing sampling.

If you're doing sampling and you're still not seeing anything, please let me know.

Regards,
Chris

Answer 2

Also, I should mention that this works with both managed and native code, 32- or 64-bit.  If you want to know more about this feature, you can search on MSDN for "line level sampling".

Regards,
Chris