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Stay DRY with PostSharp: Profile ASP.NET MVC application using MiniProfiler

There are so many productive tools and packages out there that can be used for profiling an ASP.NET MVC application. While back I wrote a quick intro about how Glimpse can come handy profiling your web application. There is one more simplistic and quick way to start profiling load / execution time for your application routines using MiniProfiler. This little package is prepared by folks at Stackexchange and used for Stackoverflow.com and other sites. MiniProfile's homepage shows quick way to get started with using MiniProfiler in your application. Following code snippet is required to profile a piece of code (not to forget MiniProfiler.Start() and MiniProfiler.Stop()): var profiler = MiniProfiler.Current; using (profiler.Step("Set page title")) { // Your code to profile } and you will see something similar to following when you load your application and run through profiled piece of code: {<1>} So if I » Read more

Jsinh 24 February 2015

Glimpse for debugging and profiling ASP.NET MVC

If you are not using Glimpse to debugging and profiling ASP.NET web application then you are missing out on very useful stuff I must say. This NuGet package brings many handy information about your ASP.NET MVC application, which in turn can be useful and quick help to dig state and performance issues in your application. Advantage of adapting Glimpse is that, it can be used in production environment where it can be enabled or visible based on your custom configuration / conditon. Thus gives you power to analyse your production state without compromising or hindering your environment rules and constraints. You can install Glimpse from NuGet into your ASP.NET MVC application with Install-Package Glimpse.Mvc5 (because I am using MVC5 for this example). This installs three packages: Glimpse.Mvc5 (Current release is 1.5.3) Glimpse.AspNet Glimpse (Core) If you are using other version of MVC you » Read more

Jsinh 07 January 2015