I know a lot of you have been waiting for this, so I’m pleased to be able to tell you that we’ve now integrated support for ASP.NET web applications and web services into ANTS Profiler 4. This goes for both IIS and Web Development Server, so if you’re looking for this support, you can find details of the latest available build in the early access programme forum at:

http://www.red-gate.com/messageboard/viewforum.php?f=80

Obviously, my usual weaselly disclaimers apply: it’s pretty early days yet so there are bound to be a few issues. So far we’re very confident about the IIS 5 support; this seems to work fine with all supported OS versions, on both x86 and x64. IIS 6 and 7 seem to be fine on x86, although we have seen issues with IIS 6 on x64. Web Development Server support works absolutely fine on x86 with Visual Studio 2005, but doesn’t work on either x64 or with Visual Studio 2008. We’ll be looking into these problems over the next few days. The take home message is that if you’re waiting for the IIS support it’s probably more than worth your while to have a play with the latest build.

As well as this obvious addition, we’ve made quite a few other tweaks, and generally improved stability compared to earlier builds. For example, you won’t get slapped round the head with an exception just for having the temerity to move your mouse pointer over the timeline whilst profiling your application.