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sharing thoughts on my work and tools

Customizing AppInsights end-user location recording

If you are using AppInsights JavaScript SDK, you probably noticed that all telemetry has location...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 05/09/2016

Extending AppInsights Sampling to Specify Telemetry Types

Starting with v.2.0 of .NET AppInsights SDK sampling is enabled by default in...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 04/29/2016

Modifying and Filtering Telemetry with AppInsights JavaScript SDK Telemetry Initializer

Telemetry Initializers and, more recently, Telemetry Processors, is now quite well known and used...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 04/20/2016

Application Insights Telemetry Stream from your browser

I just published the first version of Application Insights Telemetry Stream - it lets you view...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 04/03/2016

Application Insights JavaScript SDK extension for jQuery Mobile

We have a fair number of customers asking about Single Page Application support in Application...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 03/24/2016

In my previous post I described Application Map in Application Insights that lets you view the...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 03/16/2016

Application Map - topology of your application in AppInsights

If you've been one of 10% of customers who have this experience enabled (very soon this will be...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 03/08/2016

Finding Telemetremo - steps to diagnose why your data is not showing in AppInsights

The steps in this blog entry is pretty much how a significant part of my daily life is spent these...

Author: Alex Bulankou Date: 01/27/2016

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools CTP - simple app and first impressions

Very pleasant XAML editing/design experience, unbearable deployment wait time. Creating the project,...

Author: albulank Date: 04/08/2010

How to receive a full GC notification with .NET 4.0

While scanning GC class members in IntelliSense with VS 2010 I noticed a few that looked unfamiliar....

Author: albulank Date: 11/15/2009

Data and UI Virtualization in WPF

The topic of virtualization is somewhat complex but at the same time pretty well covered on MSDN and...

Author: albulank Date: 11/12/2009

DispatcherTimer and Managed Memory Leaks

Recently, while diagnosing a managed memory leak, we found a scenario where a running...

Author: albulank Date: 11/12/2009

New Threads Window in Visual Studio 2010

Hi, my name is Alex Bulankou and I'm a dev on Visual Studio Debugger team. This is my first post and...

Author: albulank Date: 06/04/2009