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Menu and Toolbar

The Nsight Tegra functionality can be accessed through the Tegra menu.

Device — See below
Windows — See below
Options... — Open Nsight Tegra Options
Nsight Tegra, Visual Studio Edition Help — Opens the help page in the default browser.

Device Submenu

Select — Allows to select the device from the list of attached devices. The currently selected device is marked by a tick.
SSH Connections — For Linux for Tegra users, enter the IP or hostname of the target, select the port number to use, and the username and connection name.
Device Information — Opens a dialog that displays information for the selected device.
On Android:
The dialog displays properties found in the /system/build.prop file. The dialog also displays a name for the device along with the serial number. Nsight Tegra generated a name by default based on some of the properties from this list, but you can change this to help you better identify the device.
Reboot Device — Prompts to reboot the selected device.

Windows Submenu

Android Log (logcat) — Shows an Android Log pane to display log messages from the currently selected device (see Device Logging).

NVIDIA Tegra Device Toolbar

Android devices can be controlled using the NVIDIA Tegra Device Toolbar. The toolbar is displayed automatically after the extension is installed.

All connected Android devices and emulators are displayed in the drop-down menu. The first available device will be selected by default. The toolbar will remember the device selected in a previous session.

If no devices are available, <No Device> will be displayed. Device selection is disabled when debugging.

The Device toolbar lets you select the device for the following uses:

Launching and debugging
Logging (on Android)
Deployment of an application