profiling in Visual Studio 2010 Professional

Question

It looks as though the profiling tools are only available in the Premium and Ultimate editions of Visual Studio 2010.

Is there a reasonable alternative which is free

Answer 1

Good news is that, profiling tools are in the FREE Community edition of Visual Studio 2015 (and of course the Professional and Enterprise editions as well).

ALT + F2

Answer 2

You can download the standalone profiling tools here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23205

Follow the instructions here for how to run them via command-line. The guide is for 2008, you just need to replace Visual Studio 9.0 with Visual Studio 10.0 anywhere it is mentioned:

http://codeka.com/blogs/index.php/2009/03/21/got-visual-studio-2008-professional-want