In this article, I describe the first of a series of Performance Patterns that you can use the VSTS concurrency visualization tool to identify. I thought that it would be appropriate to start with a simple lock contention scenario. The code that I will...

This is a second post in the series about the parallel performance tools that my team is shipping in VS2010. In the previous post, I gave a quick overview of the features of our tools. In this post, I will demonstrate how you can start analyzing your...