Parallel Development in Visual Studio

I am currently the Program Manager for parallel correctness tools in the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. My interests span formal verification and HPC. Before working at Microsoft, I was a researcher in validation in the Corporate Technology...

My name is Daniel Moth and I was asked to share a short bio, so here it is: I was born in Germany, grew up in Greece, spent 15 years in the UK and now live in the USA. I work for the Parallel Computing team here in the Developer Division at Microsoft...

MSDN Channel 9 recently published a group interview about the upcoming version of the Concurrency Visualizer: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Visual-Studio-vNext-Concurrency-Visualizer

You may have heard about C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) that lets you leverage the power of GPU in parallel computing. Aren't you all excited about it? Don't you want to try your hand at it? Now it is the time with Visual Studio 11...

In the previous entry , I described basic usage scenarios of the Concurrency Visualizer SDK.  In this entry, I will illustrate techniques to gain tighter control over the way you visualize meaningful events in your application. The Application To...

The Concurrency Visualizer in Visual Studio 11 comes with a standalone collection utility that allows you to collect traces on machines where Visual Studio 11 is not installed. This may come in handy when you need to visualize the behavior of an application...

Previously, I described how to use CVCollectionCmd to collect Concurrency Visualizer traces on a machine that lacks Visual Studio. But where is the CVCollectionCmd installer? This entry describes where to find the CVCollectionCmd installer and how to...

Chances are that you deployed CVCollectionCmd on a machine without Visual Studio 11 in order to collect traces for use with the Concurrency Visualizer. To view the traces in the Concurrency Visualizer, it’s simply a matter of bringing the trace...

I was writing a WPF based application which involved some file operations. At times, I observed that the UI was becoming unresponsive. To investigate this issue, I used the Concurrency Visualizer tool (shipped in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview) to...

If you are profiling an application spawning hundred’s of threads, you may see some thread IDs with #<int> suffixes in the Concurrency Visualizer. This is merely how the Concurrency Visualizer displays recycled thread IDs. While parsing...

The Concurrency Visualizer provides information to help developers make sense of C++ AMP applications. I wrote an entry about this and posted it on the Native Concurrency blog. If you are a C++ AMP developer, I recommend checking it out. James Rapp