Summary

We started with application profiling and tracing by looking at the various code metrics that are available to us. Various tools have different metrics available. These metrics cover the application, assemblies, namespaces, types, methods, and fields.

Then, we moved on to look at how we can perform static code analysis. We demonstrated static code analysis using Visual Studio 2022's built-in code analysis tool. We saw how to generate the following metrics: the maintainability index, cyclomatic complexity, the depth of inheritance, class coupling, lines of source code, and lines of executable code.

The next thing we looked at was the generation of memory dumps and how to view them from within Visual Studio 2022. We can view the dump time, the dump's location, the name of the process, the processor architecture, any exception information, the OS version, and the CLR version. Additionally, we can view loaded module names and their versions and physical paths.

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