I've been evaluating PurifyPlus and DevPartner for their memory analysis
features when doing C# development. For the most part I find them to be
nearly identical in functionality.
PurifyPlus gives a memory graph showing the entire application lifetime,
whereas DevPartner only shows the last minute or so. But DevPartner was
easier to get up and running with, and it has a friendlier look and feel,
for whatever that's worth.
Does anybody have any opinions on which of these is the more powerful tool
for troubleshooting memory issues in .NET development? At this time, I
don't care about the other features (performance analysis, automated
testing, et) except possibly the code coverage so I can see how well my
NUnit tests are doing.
Also, by the way, I've been using ANTS Profiler for performance analysis and
I find it to be far superior to either of the above tools. Much cheaper
too. Is there some memory analyzer out there that I've missed in my search?
Unless I missed something, MS's AllocationProfiler is lacking an allocated
object graph that I found very useful when figuring out why things weren't
being garbage collected.
Thanks,
Josh
