ANTS Memory Profiler

Use ANTS Memory Profiler to:

• Find memory leaks within minutes

• Optimize the memory usage of your C# and VB.NET code

• Create better performing, less resource-intensive applications

• Available as a standalone tool or as part of the .NET Developer Bundle

Why ANTS Memory Profiler?

Trying to understand memory problems without a suitable tool can take hours or days, if you're lucky enough to know a problem exists. This is time which would be better spent fixing the problem.

A tool every .NET developer should use

ANTS Memory Profiler makes memory profiling simple. With it, you can:

• Obtain clear, meaningful results, making it easier for you to interpret the information. Spend your time fixing problems instead of struggling to understand them.

• Get results fast – with a footprint of less than  32 MB, the profiler can comfortably profile large, complex applications, with virtually no overhead. Take as many snapshots of the heap memory as you like, in seconds rather than minutes.

• Quickly visualize the relationship between your objects – use the  instance retention graph to quickly see why your leaking objects are still being held in memory. You don't have to build a mental map to keep track of how objects reference each other.

• Go straight to the source of the problem- intelligent analysis highlights the most likely causes of issues, often saving hours of problem-hunting. 

• Zero in fast on the causes of memory leaks – powerful filtering options allow you to cut through the noise, enabling you to quickly get to the root of even the most complex problems.

If you're programming in C# or VB.NET, and you need to understand where your memory is going, give ANTS Memory Profiler a try. It takes five minutes to download, install, and start using the tool.

• Summary information for the profiling session, individual snapshots, and snapshot comparisons.

• Powerful filtering options to narrow your search down to the objects you really need to know about.

• Unique Instance categorizer automatically groups together all instances of a class which are being held in memory for the same reason.

• Instance retention graph quickly allows you to see the shortest reference paths to all GC roots, which will need to be broken to fix memory leaks.

• Compare any two snapshots with each other.

• One-step set-up dialog.

• Automated API for taking snapshots from within your application using a single line of code.

• Capable of attaching to a running .NET4 process. Ideal if you want zero downtime and to preserve the state of your current process.

• Ability to profile .NET executables, ASP.NET applications, Web Services in IIS and Web Development Server, Silverlight4 applications, Windows services, COM+ applications, and XBAP applications.

• Native Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) support.

• Ability to take and analyse an arbitrarily large number of memory snapshots.

• Support for snapshots up to 2GB in size (32-bit operating systems), or 4GB (64-bit operating systems).

• Integration with Visual Studio  2005, 2008 and 2010, so you can start profiling your application from within your IDE.  One click launches ANTS Memory Profiler within seconds, with the executable path already set.

• Supports .NET 1.1 to .NET 4.0, in any language supported by the .NET framework.

Below are the technical requirements for ANTS Memory Profiler. If you have any questions regarding the technical specifications, please contact us.

• Windows XP SP2 or later, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista,  Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2*
• Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0
• 512 MB  RAM (minimum)
• Internet   Explorer 6+
• 1 GB free hard disk space

*Supports 32-bit and 64-bit  versions of all listed OS's. Windows 2000 is not supported.