http://blogs.msdn.com/b/colinth/archive/2008/03/13/performance-find-application-bottlenecks-with-visual-studio-profiler.aspxIf you're a subscriber to msdn magazine , take a look at the article in the March 2008, Vol 23, No 4 issue on Page 81 which describes how to use the Visual Studio 2008 profiler to improve the performance of an application. A couple of members of the profileren-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)