I recently had an app that I used the VSTS Profiler on to find that a significant portion of time was spent comparing some long strings. I was using String.Equals(string a, string b, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) since I didn't care about...

The Visual Studio Team System Profiler is a tool that helps find resource bottle necks in your application. Like slow code (CPU bottleneck), disk thrashing, memory allocation, etc. I'm on the team that builds the Profiler, so here are some Profiler goodies...

An Overview of Visual Studio Team Developer tools was given at TechEd 2007 as DEV320, Writing Maintainable and Robust Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System . Here are the resources from the session and you can watch it now online. If you...

TechEd is this week!! It's 3pm on Saturday and I'm putting the latest Orcas bits on my laptop to tweak the demos in my presentation. Tomorrow I'll fly out early in the morning to make to Party w/ Palermo in time. Dawn is going to fly up later in the week...

If you're getting in to Orlando by Sunday 7pm is Party with Palermo , I'll be there! Boy this guy can party. The event at the MVP Global Summit was packed with over 200 attendees. Free to attend, free food, free drinks, free swag! Glo Lounge , 8967 International...