If you’re writing a profiler that you expect to run against CLR 2.0 or greater, you probably care about generics. Whether you're reporting call stacks or instrumenting code, it's possible the users of your profiler wrote some of that code using generic...

The Silverlight 4 beta has been released a while ago (see this ), and one of the new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to use the very same profiling API that is available for regular CLR-based apps (referred to as “desktop” CLR apps).  In...

In a previous post , I outlined to all you profiler writers how to modify your profiler so it can attach to running processes, and what sorts of limitations your profiler will have when it attaches.  In this post, I answer the question, “My profiler...

When CLR V2 came out, we made a big decision.  If your profiler has not been upgraded for V2 (i.e., if your profiler does not support ICorProfilerCallback2), then the CLR will not allow your profiler to run.  Why?  CLR V2 had some radical...