How to: Manually create performance sessions

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You can manually create a performance session. You are not required to open a project in Visual Studio to do this. For more information, see Configure performance sessions.

To manually create a performance session

  1. On the Debug menu, point to Profiler, then Performance Explorer, and then click New Performance Session.

    An empty performance session is added to Performance Explorer.

  2. Right-click Targets, and then click Add Target Binary.

  3. In the Add Target Binary dialog box, select the file name, and then click Open.

    A new binary is added.

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