Does a Silverlight memory profiler exist?

Question

CLR profiler does not seem to work with the Silverlight CLR. Does another memory profiler exist?

Answer 1

Here is memory profiling in silverlight using Xperf.

Get GC Information

Answer 2

Try this one, it is very useful:

http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_memory_profiler/index.htm

Bruno.

Answer 3

Doesn't seem to be one available yet. However, as recommended in this forum thread, you can convert your Silverlight app to a WPF application and profile that:

There is no tool as of now but as a workaround you can easily create a desktop (WPF) version of your Silverlight client from the same code base and few tweaks (refer Scot's blog for an example on this - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-tutorial-part-8-creating-a-digg-desktop-application-using-wpf.aspx) . Once you are done with this you can run any performance profiler that works with WPF.

Not an optimal solution, but it sounds like the best option for now...

Update: Just saw a blog post about XPerf which is a cpu sampler for Silverlight. Not exactly a memory profiler but a good tool for testing the performance of Silverlight apps...