I just found out something neat . VSTS tells you how many samples were taken in kernel mode. Unfortunately, it doesn’t tell you where in kernel mode that time was spent. But, it does tell you if you need to be thinking about kernel-mode time, which makes...

Recently I’ve been reading up on Rico Mariani’s blog . What a gem! One especially profound article he’s posted talks about the challenges in promoting good performance culture. First-rate performance doesn’t happen by accident. Like having a solid feature...

I've gotten a few questions about other profiling tools to use when profiling WPF applications. I'm putting this on my 'things-to-do' list, but if anyone has experience with using other profilers against WPF, I'd love to hear about it. In the meantime...