Profiler information?

Question

Hi all,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh696636(v=vs.110).aspx
This page have describe some information about profiler.
But, is there any page or session are talking about profiler?

Because these pages just describe a part of profiler, it doesn't cover all.

For example:
What's mean "Mark"?
I can't find it in these pages.

Thanks,
Woody

Answer 1

I don't think there are any build sessions that demo profiling.

If the quick start isn't enough, the Visual Studio docs on profiling are here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9z62c29(v=vs.110).

Marks are discussed in the VS profiling docs, though I can't seem to find the Data Collection Control window in 2012.

Answer 2

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply

Woody

Answer 3

Hi,

I am also interested in profiling metro app, I actually tried it and it works, but I cannot seem to acquire more control over it.

So basically, I created Direct3D App from template, ran the profiler (Analyze->Profiler->Start Profiling), watched a spinning cube for 5 seconds, hit Stop profiling, and inspected the results.

As expected, most of the time was spent in Direct3DBase::Present and CubeRenderer::[Direct3DBase]::Render.

Now let's say, I want to exclude some portion of the code from profiling, so here's what I did:

#include <VSPerf.h>

... then modified Direct3DFramework::Run function like this:

void Direct3DFramework::Run()
{
    BasicTimer^ timer = ref new BasicTimer();

    while (!m_windowClosed)
    {
	SuspendProfile(PROFILE_GLOBALLEVEL, PROFILE_CURRENTID);
        timer->Update();
        CoreWindow::GetForCurrentThread()->Dispatcher->ProcessEvents(CoreProcessEventsOption::ProcessAllIfPresent);
        m_renderer->Update(timer->Total, timer->Delta);
        m_renderer->Render();
        m_renderer->Present(); // This call is synchronized to the display frame rate.
	ResumeProfile(PROFILE_GLOBALLEVEL, PROFILE_CURRENTID);
    }

}

Ran the profiler, but sadly I am seeing same results, that means rendering and presenting was still got picked by the profiler, though I executed SuspendProfile and ResumeProfile accordingly.

Is this a bug, or functions from VSPerf.h have no effect on the profiler ran from Visual Studio menu?

Thanks !

Answer 4

anyone?