Controlling Profiling with the Call Profiler Collection Control Window (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

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1/5/2010

The Collection Control window displays after you connect to a target device with Remote Call Profiler.

The following procedures show how to use the Collection Control window to control profiling.

You can only collect data from code that has been properly instrumented for Remote Call Profiler. For more information about code instrumentation, see Call Profiler Instrumented Module Building.

You can use the Collection Control window to collect data from an application or from OS code.

To collect data from an application, you must first launch the application. If the application is not running, you can launch it from the Collection Control window.

To launch an instrumented application

  1. In the Collection Control window, choose Launch.

  2. In the box, type the name of the instrumented application that you want to collect data from.

  3. Select the Start collection on run or Resume collection on run check box to make Remote Call Profiler start collecting data when the application launches.

    The name of the check box varies, depending on the context.

  4. Select the Finish collection on exit check box to make Call Profiler stop collecting data when the application stops running.

  5. Choose OK.

To start collecting data

  • In the Collection Control window, choose Start or Resume.

To temporarily stop collecting data

  • In the Collection Control window, choose Pause.

To resume collecting data

  • In the Collection Control window, choose Resume.

To stop collecting data and then view the collected data

  • In the Collection Control window, choose Finish.

See Also

Tasks

How to Use Call Profiler to Find Performance Problems

Concepts

Call Profiler Collection Control Window