How to: Manually Create Performance Sessions with the Profiling Tools

You can manually create a performance session. You are not required to open a project in Visual Studio to do this. For more information, see Configuring Performance Sessions for Profiling Tools. 

To manually create a performance session

1. On the Analyze menu, point to Profiler, and then click New Performance Session.

   An empty performance session is added to Performance Explorer.

2. Right-click Targets, and then click Add Target Binary.

3. In the Add Target Binary dialog box, select the file name, and then click Open.

   A new binary is added.

See Also

Other Resources

Analyzing Application Performance using Profiling Tools

Getting Started with Profiling Tools