Instrumentation suggestions

[Marc Gravell]

Has anybody got any recommendations for good quality instrumentation
performance / usage trackers for C# (2.0) code? Ideally that doesn't require
exhaustive manual insertion into source? I don't mind whether it plugs into
the IL directly, or requires a bespoke build etc. Going back a few years, I
can think of examples like TrueTime - but what is good now? Main objective
is to track poorly performing or highly used regions for optimisation -
ideally without the instrumentation skewing the figures too much ;-p
All price ranges /considered/, but obviously value for money is a factor
too.

And yes: I have googled (and tried a few) - I'm after more of developers'
opinions: "what I use is <x> and it works {great|acceptably|poorly}".

Suggestions? And thanks in advance.

Marc

 

[chanmm]

Are you look for something like this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/classlibraries/fxcop/

chanmm

 

[Marc Gravell]

Thanks for jumping in, but nope; FxCop performs inspects the structure of
the code re coding guidelines; while this is very useful, I mean /runtime/
analysis; I want to see how frequently each method is getting called; what
the time taken is; memory usage; etc. Basically: where should I focus my
limited time to best improve performance etc.

The sort of analysis that red-gate's ANTS profiler provides - I was
wondering about other options?

Marc