Visual Studio Profiling: Starting / Stopping Code

Question

Is it possible to start / stop the visual studio profiler (Professional 2012+) from the code? I know that you can pause it, but to start profiling you need to click on the button in the visual studio.

In my case, I would like to launch it by clicking on a button in my application, which switches to a new view and automatically stops it when loading the user interface. I would like to know why there is such a big delay before the user interface appears.

Answer 1

I haven't used it before, but it looks like you're looking for a profiling API .

DataCollection.StartProfile and DataCollection.StopProfile looks like the methods that interest you.