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Is there any .NET memory profiler or library that allows linking to your application and writing memory samples for that application programmatically without installing anything on the target machine. And analysing these sample later on another computer.

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You can capture a memory dump of the offending process on the remote machine and then analyse the dump using WinDbg / sos.dll (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190764.aspx) on your local machine.

The SOS debugging extension will (among other functionality):

• Give you statistics on the managed heap such as generation sizes, type names / allocation size, etc.
• Allow you to trace the roots to objects on the managed heap which may give you clues as to which parts of your app are responsible for excessive memory allocation.