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Analyze CPU usage with Profiler

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Analyze CPU usage with Profiler

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- [Instructor] I'm working in the same project and solution as in the last demo. What I did in that last demo is I used the diagnostic tools to analyze what's happening in the CPU while I was debugging. And one of the things I didn't notice while I was recording that video is that I was in the Release Build. I should have been in the Debug Build. That didn't really make any difference for the demo, but it's important for the one I'm showing you in this video, because I'm using a tool that wants to work with the Release Build. So I'll switch over to the Release Build, and then I will open up the Performance Profiler. And what we see here is a new tab opens called diagsession, and I've got several choices of what to analyze. But what we're going to analyze is the startup project in this solution, which is this DebugWpf project. So what'll happen when I click on the start button is Visual Studio will run the executable for…

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