mgoldin's blog
A blog about Profiler in Microsoft Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2012 and Debugger .NATVIS files – what can I do with them?
In Visual Studio 2012 , Visual Studio native debugger introduces a new type visualization framework...
Date: 06/06/2012
“Performance reports must be created on a local drive”
For better performance, VS Profiler requires the report to be on a local drive. If you change the...
Date: 04/25/2011
VS2010 SP1: Silverlight 4 profiling from Visual Studio UI
If you install recently published VS2010 SP1 Beta, you can discover that VS Profiler team...
Date: 12/21/2010
CPU Performance Counters in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler
While using Visual Studio Profiler either from Visual Studio UI or through command line...
Date: 06/21/2010
Thread Performance: Resource Contention Concurrency Profiling in Visual Studio 2010
Does your native code deals with critical sections or other synchronization primitives? Does your...
Date: 06/08/2010
VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling from Visual Studio UI
In my previous post I showed how VS2010 Profiler command line tools can be used to profile your...
Date: 06/01/2010
VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling
Did you know that Visual Studio 2010 Profiler allows you to profile your Silverlight 4 applications?...
Date: 04/26/2010
Resource Contention Concurrency Profiling in Visual Studio 2010 – Performance Investigation Flows
Visual Studio 2010 brings a number of innovations to multithreaded and parallel computing. One of...
Date: 04/22/2010
VS2010: Using profiler to improve cache data locality
A recent Concurrency Hazards: False Sharing article demonstrates how VS2010 profiler can be used to...
Date: 01/20/2010
PRF0025: No data was collected – why is that?
One day, you may try to use Visual Studio profiler to sample an application you develop, and end up...
Date: 01/14/2010
VS 2008 Profiler and Nehalem Intel Processor
When you run VS 2008 SP1 profiler on Intel Nehalem CPU based machine, you may experience crash of...
Date: 01/12/2010
Visual Studio Profiler in Virtual Environment
Visual Studio profiler usage on virtual machines was limited so far, as it didn’t support Sampling...
Date: 01/08/2010
Total, Application, Kernel, Overhead, Other samples - what are they all about?!
VS Profiler usage in Sampling mode results in generation of VSP file. This file is, naturally, full...
Date: 08/05/2005
Multiple profilers of managed code on the same machine. Why it is bad?
It may happen that when you try to attach Visual Studio profiler to a managed application, you get...
Date: 07/26/2005
Why function callees sum up with more than 100% in Caller/Callee view?
We are asked this question sometimes, especially when customers profile real world UI applications....
Date: 06/28/2005
Let me introduce myself
Hello, I am Maxim Goldin, and I am a developer in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005. More...
Date: 06/27/2005