Building your own profiling and diagnosis tools with Event Tracing for Windows

Analyzing and profiling applications, native or managed, can be tricky and time-consuming.

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a mature, low-overhead mechanism that provides events of all kinds that can help understand the way processes execute, measure various properties and generally help with profiling. In this mostly-demo session, we'll see how to create .NET tools that use ETW to capture information in real-time and offline and analyze these to get to the information we seek.