Parallel Development in Visual Studio

One reason to use the Concurrency Visualizer is to maximally utilize system resources. To aid in this effort, it displays the execution of the program as green segments in its timeline. However, the Visualizer does not distinguish between the user’s work...

My name is Matt Jacobs and I’m a developer on the Parallel Computing Platform team. Born and raised in Westport, CT, I graduated from Brown University this past May and joined Microsoft in July. I’m excited to share some the things I’ve learned on this...

Welcome to fourth and final installment of the "beginner's guide" series.  In my previous entry, I discussed the "Threads" view of the Concurrency Visualizer.  In this entry, I will discuss the "Cores" view. Using...

Hello and welcome to the third installment of the "beginner's guide" series.  While I discussed the "CPU Utilization" view last time, I will now discuss the "Threads" view in the profiler. Working with the same code...

For those of you who have watched my first screencast , you may be interested in taking a look at this one this one , which dives deeper into the Threads View of the Concurrency Visualizer. James Rapp - Parallel Computing Platform

In my previous post, I described how to profile your multithreaded application using the Visual Studio Performance Wizard.  As I mentioned, the summary report presented after profiling yielded three options.  In this entry, I will discuss the...

Hello world!  This is the first of four "beginner's guide" installments.  Though individiuals more familiar with concurrency issues may find it easier to get started with our tools, my team and I are interested in making it easier...

If you haven't had the chance to check out channel 9, you're missing out. Our team has put out two videos since the launch of beta 2; I highly recommend you take a look at them when you get a chance.  In this screencast , running just under 9 minutes...

We are very excited to further improve the parallel capabilites of the Visual Studio 2010 profiler with the release of beta 2. One of the features that we worked on, "demystify", allows you to click anywhere within the tool and get a customized...

My name is James Rapp and I am a Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team. I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I recently graduated in May of '09 and had the privilege...

Welcome to our new blog! Many of us on the Parallel Developer Tools team wanted to start this blog in hopes of helping developers tackle the difficulties inherent to parallel programming.   We think that analysis tools are especially valuable...