Preferences

The Preferences page is used to edit settings related to the user interface of .NET Memory Profiler. The preferences are edited by clicking Options under the Tools menu. This will bring up the Options dialog, which is used to edit preferences and default session settings. For more information about session settings, see the next section.

Field values presentation style

This setting indicates how field values should be presented in the Instance details view. The available options are:

• Visual Studio
  Fields are presented in a hierarchical way, grouped by the type they are defined in. This style is modelled after the Visual Studio style of presenting field values.

• Flat
  Fields are presented as they are declared in the metadata, with the top-level type fields first.

For more information about field value presentation, see Field values.

Instance graph animation

The instance graph makes heavy use of animations, mainly to make it easier for the user to see how the graph changes due to an operation. However, the animation is very graphics intensive, and is often not suitable when running on a remote desktop. The Instance graph animation setting is used to define when instance graph animation is allowed. The available options are:

• Always
  The graph is always animated.

• When not running under remote desktop
  The graph is only animated when the profiler is run on a normal desktop; if a remote desktop is used, no animations will be performed.

• Never
  The graph is never animated.