<p>How do I use the profiler in Visual Studio 2008?</p>

<p>I know theres a build option in Config Properties -> Linker -> Advanced -> Profile (/PROFILE), however I can't find anything about actauly using it, only articles I was able to find appear to only apply to older versions of Visual Studio (eg most say to goto Build->Profile to bring up the profile dialog box, yet in 2008 there is no such menu item).</p>

<p>Is this because Visual Studio 2008 does not include a profiler, and if it does where is it and where is the documentation for it?</p>

[{'answer_id': 61681, 'author': 'ChrisN', 'author_id': 3853, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3853', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>The profiler is only available in the Team System editions of Visual Studio 2008. The last version that I used that included a profiler was Visual C++ 6.0.</p>\n\n<p>For Visual Studio 2005, you could try <a href="http://www.compuware.com/media.asp?cid=701000000004ej0" rel="noreferrer">Compuware DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 61830, 'author': 'Ant', 'author_id': 3709, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3709', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There was also a list of .NET profilers in the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3927/what-are-some-good-net-profilers">What Are Some Good .NET Profilers</a> question.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2212166, 'author': 'Imran', 'author_id': 245523, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/245523', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Microsoft has released stand-alone Profiler for VS 2008 <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fd02c7d6-5306-41f2-a1be-b7dcb74c9c0b&amp;displaylang=en" rel="noreferrer">here</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 11205196, 'author': 'Michelle', 'author_id': 1482301, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1482301', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>As I understood from reading a few sites, when you use VS 2008 stand alone profiler to create <code>.vsp</code> files, you will need either VS2008  Premium or Ultimate to view <code>.vsp</code> files.</p>\n\n<p>By the way, I installed VS2012 Release candidate which is available for free (trial version?) and I can use its profiling engine.</p>\n'}]
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