While IIS Express support shipped in Visual Studio 2010 SP1, unfortunately profiling code running in IIS Express does not just work out of the box.  The issue is that the profiler does not “know” how to setup and launch the IIS Express process...

  Recently we have received several questions regarding Visual Studio Code Analysis integration with Team Foundation Server’s check-in policy and build server, so I thought it would be helpful to clarify the behavior and expose some relatively hidden...

In Visual Studio 2010 SP1 we enabled the ability to profile Silverlight applications from the Visual Studio UI. Unfortunately there is a limitation where we cannot automatically attach to multiple processes on launch from inside Visual Studio, so you...

Ever begin debugging a Windows Form to have the form close suddenly without the debugger alerting you to the exception? Or have you ever been stepping through the Form_Load event handler (or a method called by the Form_Load event handler) in a WPF application...

With Visual Studio 2010 came the release of Visual Studio .NET 4.0. .NET 4.0 adds a lot of great features and new capabilities; however with .NET 4.0 came a new 4.0 debug engine in Visual Studio 2010 (so there are now two managed debug engines, 2.0/3...

It has been well publicized that Visual Studio 2010 introduced the ability to debug dumps of managed processes in mixed mode (as opposed to the old days of native debugging + SOS in the Immediate Window ). The one fact about this new feature that often...

Causes We have received numerous reports of Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 hanging while debugging. The two most common causes identified for this were a bug in IntelliTrace and an Internet Explorer 8 bug when debugging web applications. IntelliTrace Hang You...

What is a dump and how is it useful? A dump is a snapshot of an application at the point in time the dump is taken. It shows what was executing, what modules are loaded, and if saved with heap contains a snapshot of what was in the application’s...