When I started working at Microsoft this past June, I was excited about two main aspects of my job. First off, I was going to work with developer tools. It’s a truly great thing to be able to work with and to improve a product that you yourself rely on...

Welcome back to my walkthrough of how to use the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 . If you are unfamiliar with the new profiler, check out the first part of my walkthrough to get some basic info about the profiler. In the last section of...

For those of you who are new to these walkthroughs, I am detailing how the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 works from within the IDE. If this is your first look at these walkthroughs, check out part one for my introduction and to learn...

At a very general level, the main issue of my job is how to take a large amount of profiling data and present it to the user in a way that is useful, quick, intuitive and pleasant. While it may seem funny that pleasant was included in that list, look...

Alright! Time for my first off-topic post on here, now I get to be a real blogger. Just last month at NAMM , a music industry trade show, Gibson introduced their new digital guitar . The guitar looks and performs like a typical Les Paul , expect for two...

On Tuesday of this week I got a chance to demo our performance tools for Microsoft’s Channel Nine community web site. One of the community team members liked my blog postings ( Part one , Part two and Part three are all up now), and contacted me about...

Welcome back to my walkthrough of how to use the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 . If you are unfamiliar with the new profiler, check out the first part of my walkthrough to get some basic info about the profiler. In the last section of...

When I started working at Microsoft this past June, I was excited about two main aspects of my job. First off, I was going to work with developer tools. It’s a truly great thing to be able to work with and to improve a product that you yourself rely on...