I used the 5.0 evaluation copy of RedGate ANTS profiler tool on a standard Windows Sever 2003 R2 / SharePoint 2007 virtual machine.
To get profiling working with my SharePoint code base I made the following adjustments:
- Allow site collection administrator to “Act as part of the operating system” and “Impersonate a client after authentication” and to Administrators group – All this was already the case.
- Run “ANTS Performance Profiler 5 Service” and “ANTS Memory Profile 5 Service” under the site collection administrator account
- Copied my applications dll’s and pdbs from GAC to web application bin folder, as I was previously using the GAC.
A complete guide to setting up ANTS profiler with SharePoint
The ANTS profiler is extremely easy to use and it quickly helped me narrow down some issues using XlstCompiledTransform objects.
Edward Wilde 