VTuneAPI is a set of APIs from VTune^TMPerformance Analyzer - the user can ignore (don't collect) the profiling data when the application is running on non-interest of code, e.g. 3rd-party libraries. VTuneAPI  has Pause API and Resume API to set profiling control in user's C/C++ program, also there are other APIs to configure sampling / call graph data collection, and generate final result, etc. See An Introduction to Sampling and Time, page 8 in detail.

Dump VTuneAPI all export functions:

1 000012F4 VTBindSamplingResults

2 0000126C VTNameThread

3 00001234  VTPause

4 0000135C VTunePauseCounterMonitor

5 00001324 VTunePauseSampling

6 00001250 VTResume

7 00001378 VTuneResumeCounter Monitor

8 00001340 VTuneResumeSampling

9 00001294 VTStartSampling

10 000012C4 VTStopSampling

Fortunately Intel® Parallel Amplifier includes this feature in the product. Simply the user can use VTPause/VTResume to control data profiling. There is no necessary to use VTStartSampling/VTStopSampling since the user can do it on the Parallel Amplifier's user interface.

a)       Include file - VtuneApi.h under Parallel Studio\Amplifier\include

b)       Lib file - VtuneApi.dllunder Parallel Studion\Amplifer\bin32\runtime, or Parallel Studion\Amplifer\bin64\runtime

Here are steps to use VTuneAPI to control data collection.

1. Set new path for Vtuneapi.h in Include Directories, Microsoft* Visual Studio* ->Tools->Options->VC++ Directories->Include files
2. Copy VtuneApi.dll to Project's Release directory which includes generated application.
3. In Microsoft* Visual Studio, right-click on the project -> Intel Parallel Amplifier->Project Properties->check on "Start data collection paused" & check off "Resume collection after sec."
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5. Insert VTuneAPI code in user's source such as below example, then rebuild the project

      #include "Vtuneapi.h"

      ......

       typedef void (*VTFUNC)(void);

       HMODULE hMod;

       VTFUNC vtResume, vtPause;

       hMod = LoadLibrary("VtuneApi.dll");

       vtResume = (VTFUNC) GetProcAddress(hMod, "VTResume");

       vtPause = (VTFUNC) GetProcAddress(hMod, "VTPause");

       ......

       (vtResume());

       // code section 1 - collecting data

       (vtPause());

       // code section 2 - not collecting data

       (vtResume());

      // code section 3 - collecting data

      ......

Finally run the Parallel amplifier to get expected result