CLR Profiler – Managed Heap Report for a Windows Application

The CLR Profiler provides various types of reports which help in determining the performance of the application and tuning it. The “Object by Address” report shows the structure of the Managed heap, when the application was executing.

To view the “Object by Address” report, use the following steps.

1. Start CLR Profiler (CLRProfiler.exe)
2. Make sure that the following check boxes are selected:
    Profiling active
    Allocations
    Calls
3. Click Start Application (or) Select File -> Profile Application
4. In the File dialog which opens, select the applications .Exe file and click Open
5. This will open the application, work on the application and finally close the application
6. Once the application exits, the Profiler summary screen will open, close this summary dialog.
7. Click on View -> Object by Address option to open the Report

The following screen shows on how the Object by Address report details will be displayed for a simple Windows Application.