Parallel Development in Visual Studio

Yesterday, I spent lot of time trying to understand somebody’s code using the Concurrency Visualizer.  I found it easiest to do this by following main thread’s detailed activity, segment by segment and sample by sample.  However, I found it...

Another useful trick that is hard to find: you can expand the whole  call tree with one click, Numpad-* (the numerical pad asterisk; usual asterisk will not work).  It may be less convenient on laptop keyboards, but on a desktop  this key...

We noticed that some customers did not find a pretty unique feature of the Concurrency Visualizer:  if you click  on any of the non-green “colors” in the “Visible Timeline Profile” legend, you can get a profile of the waiting time of the selected...

I have a tool which opens a file, parses the contents, filters and transforms some of the content and outputs the transformed results. The architecture is: 1. The main thread kicks off async I/O. 2. The I/O worker thread transforms the received byte array...

See Dustin Metzgar’s recent entry , which walks you through the diagnosis of a performance problem in WCF using the Concurrency Visualizer.  This entry illustrates the benefits of effectively using the Visualizer. James Rapp – Parallel Computing...