title: How to profile a silverlight application?
body: <p>Is their any profilers that support Silverlight? I have tried ANTS (Version 3.1) without any success? Does version 4 support it? Any other products I can try?</p>
  <p><strong>Updated</strong>
  since the release of Silverlight 4, it is now possible to do full profiling on SL applications... check out <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/seema/archive/2010/01/28/pdc-vs2010-profiling-silverlight-4.aspx" rel="noreferrer">this</a> article on the topic</p>
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  <p>At PDC, I announced that Silverlight 4 came with the new CoreCLR capability of being profile-able by the VS2010 profilers: this means that for the first time, we give you the power to profile the managed and native code (user or platform) used by a Silverlight application. woohoo. kudos to the CLR team.</p>
  <p>Sidenote: From silverlight 1-3, one could only use things like xperf (see XPerf: A CPU Sampler for Silverlight) which is very powerful to see the layout/text/media/gfx/etc pipelines, but only gives the native callstack.)</p>
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  <p>From <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/seema" rel="noreferrer">SilverLite</a> (<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/seema/archive/2010/01/28/pdc-vs2010-profiling-silverlight-4.aspx" rel="noreferrer">PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4</a>)</p>