Optimization: A tool like gprof for visual studio

As a C# programmer, i'm in a transition from small projects to medium projects. I didn't need a profiler for my little projects before. But now I need a tool that help me improving the performance of my code. I used gprof many years ago, in C.

Can someone give me a starting point, or recommend me a tool like gprof for VS2008? That is: A tool that counts how many times every function has been called, and how many time It's spended in every function. No matter if a had to pay for it (under certains limits).

Any other advice about how to locate portions of code that should be optimized will be great.

Thanks.

Solution

Any other advice about how to locate portions of code that should be optimized will be great.

You can do better than gprof or anything that acts like it.

Here's a quick-and-dirty explanation, including a link to the original gprof paper, and an explanation of what it does and does not do.

Here's an example.