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Software performance, profiling, and design
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available Now!
On Monday, we released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to the web! In the new,...
Date: 10/22/2009
Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool
Originating in Microsoft Research as Ajax View, the Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions...
Date: 04/29/2009
Website Performance Talk at MIX09
John Hrvatin, lead program manager on the IE team, recently gave a talk at MIX09 entitled...
Date: 04/21/2009
Patch Released To Fix Sampling On Intel Core i7 Processors
A hotfix has been issued for those of you trying to do sample profiling on Intel’s...
Date: 02/25/2009
See The Profiler At PDC2008
Steve Carroll, development lead for the Visual Studio Profiler, will be at PDC2008 next week giving...
Date: 10/27/2008
Visual Studio Profiler: Found A Bug? Have A Suggestion?
The profiler is not flawless. We work hard every day to improve it, however, and we’re always...
Date: 09/05/2008
VS2008 SP1 Website Profiling Bug And Workaround
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, while fixing many profiling bugs, has also unfortunately...
Date: 08/22/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released To The World!
After months of development and some grueling bug fixes, we released the VS2008 SP1 patch to the web...
Date: 08/12/2008
Walkthrough: Profiling With Automated Tests
When doing performance investigations, we recommend having some well-defined scenario in mind in...
Date: 08/07/2008
Sample Profiling And Stdin
Some command-line applications can read from stdin for use as program input. The canonical example...
Date: 07/29/2008
Excluding Small Functions From Instrumentation
In Visual Studio 2008, we added a feature to exclude small functions from instrumentation. A small...
Date: 07/08/2008
What code path is allocating the most bytes for a type?
In Visual Studio 2008, we added the ability to quickly determine the most expensive call stack in...
Date: 06/14/2008
TechEd 2007 Visual Studio Profiler Talk Available
The TechEd 2007 VSTS Profiler presentation is available online with slides and a video. Use the key...
Date: 08/13/2007
It's Aliiiiive: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
I'm a little late to the party, but Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is alive and kicking with its public...
Date: 07/27/2007
Visual Studio Profiler Talk at TechEd 2007
Steve Carroll, the profiler dev lead, and Marc Popkin-Paine, the profiler QA lead, will be...
Date: 06/06/2007
The Obligatory First Post
I joined the Visual Studio Team System Profiler team as a developer just shy of a year ago and,...
Date: 05/24/2007