Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog

I’ve recently been working on a series of post on my blog about many of the cool new features that we are adding in Visual Studio Team System 2008 (codename Orcas). So I figured that I’d post a quick link here to all the articles that I’ve finished so...

Well, our trusty PM is at Tech Ed, and the rest of us are sitting back at a safe distance in Redmond! We've been firing on all cylinders in order to get this stuff ready, and this is the first time our product has ever been announced so it's quite a day...

Some thoughts on the basic differences between sampling and instrumentation: http://blogs.msdn.com/ejarvi/archive/2005/04/07/406350.aspx [ejarvi]

There are a couple of new posts from some of the profiler team members: Steve Carroll answers the question “Why are there two copies of my function in Instrumentation mode function report?” And Ian Huff looks at how to profile signed binaries...

Keep your eyes on Joc’s blog . He’s starting up a series of posts on how to use our profiler “off-road.” These posts will cover using the profiler outside of the IDE and some other deeper ways to use our product. Make sure to drop him a line if there...

When doing performance investigations, we recommend having some well-defined scenario in mind in order to increase the reproducibility of your issue and increase the consistency of profiling data collected.  This approach is similar in spirit to...

While investigating a performance problem you may need to collect many Performance Reports and compare them. You can use the Performance Explorer to quickly compare two reports by: Selecting two reports. Right-clicking and choosing 'Compare Performance...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, while fixing many profiling bugs, has also unfortunately introduced an issue with website profiling. If you have a website project created with a pre-SP1 version of Visual Studio and then try to profile it using instrumentation...

Visual Studio profiler usage on virtual machines was limited so far, as it didn’t support Sampling mode in such environment. I’m glad to note that in Visual Studio 2010 you can sample your applications inside of virtual machines. VMs could be created...

For better performance, VS Profiler requires the report to be on a local drive. If you change the report file location through Performance Session properties page (right click on performance session in Performance Explorer –> Properties –> General...

In Visual Studio 2008, we added the ability to quickly determine the most expensive call stack in your application . In profiler parlance, the “most expensive call stack” is known as the “hot path”. What do we mean by “expensive”? “Expensive” is whatever...

Some command-line applications can read from stdin for use as program input.  The canonical example of this is sort.exe which sorts the list of strings given to it and prints it back out to the console: C:\Temp> type letters.txt m z a C:\Temp>...

Steve Carroll, development lead for the Visual Studio Profiler, will be at PDC2008 next week giving a presentation on the profiler: What: TL24: Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability When: Wednesday, October 29th, 1:15pm - 2:30pm...

A common question asked of Team System developers is, "What does Team System offer me for my native code development?" Joc (the development lead on the Diagnostic team) just took the time to answer that question in the blog post below: http://blogs...

On Monday, we released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to the web!  In the new, simplified product lineup, you will find the profiler in the Premium and Ultimate editions. We’ve made a lot of progress since Beta 1 with the profiler...

John Hrvatin, lead program manager on the IE team, recently gave a talk at MIX09 entitled “Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites” (see the presentation key below).  John goes over a number of common performance pitfalls encountered...

Hey all, I'm rolling out a new series of articles about the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler features that will be included with the latest Orcas beta release. Check out the first article on comparison documents here . ~Ian

The profiler is not flawless.  We work hard every day to improve it, however, and we’re always listening to and considering your feedback.  The profiler exists to help you, so if you feel it has shortcomings or if it fails to fully address your...

S. Somasegar the VP of Developer Division has just put up a post on his weblog detailing some new profiler and debugger features up coming in VS 2008. Check out the article here . [ ianhu ]

I spend a lot of time in the profiler's Call Tree view when I use the profiler. When you are really digging deep into the tree, screen real estate becomes a big issue. There is one very simple Visual Studio trick that really helps out so you can get more...

We recently added a new team member here in profiler land and he’s up and kicking with a blog already. Check out Colin’s blog here for his first entry on basic profiler scenarios . ~Ian

Chris Schmich, a former intern on our team, is now back in town and working full time on the profiler. He has a blog up and running as well, starting out with the Obligatory First Post . [ianhu]