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If you are developing a JavaScript Windows Store App, you will want to measure the performance characteristics of your app. The Visual Studio 2012 JavaScript profiler can help you to identify performance issues with your app. This functionality is present in all SKUs of Visual Studio. In this post, I...

There’s a lot of good content on IntelliTrace and we’ve grabbed a few links here to have in one place. If you’ve got some time and want to get to know more about IntelliTrace in Visual Studio these are great places to go. Zain Naboulsi on Understanding IntelliTrace: Part I...

Over the past little while, the System Center Operations Management team and the Visual Studio IntelliTrace team have been working together to create an increasingly rich debugging experience for applications in production environments. This collaborative effort provides the ability to take Application...

In Visual Studio we ship a .NET allocation profiler feature that is documented on MSDN here , here , here , and here . Note how this feature was available in the Premium edition of Visual Studio but as of VS2012 we ship this feature in the Professional SKU! We have heard from customers that have mismatched...

If you are developing a Windows Store App using XAML (whether it’s C++, C#, or VB), there is a good chance there will be areas of your app where you would like to improve the performance. To assist with this, we’ve included the Visual Studio CPU profiler in all SKUs of Visual Studio capable of developing...

One of the areas that we have improved in VS2012 updates is dump debugging. In this post, I will explain dump debugging feature specific to the ARM architecture. We want to enable all developers who are building Windows Store applications targeting the Surface RT and other ARM devices. Even though we...

In Visual Studio 2012 RTM, there was limited support for mixed managed and native debugging of Windows Store apps. This support was greatly enhanced in Update 1 . Setup Enabling mixed mode debugging is simple. All you need to do is select your project and choose “Properties” from the...

Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint , in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to...

You will recall that VS2012 Update 1 brought a bunch of symbol loading improvements for your debugging scenarios, as documented in our previous two blog posts Debugger Source Symbol Improvements to Visual Studio 2012 More on symbol improvements in VS2012 Update 1 You’ll be happy to hear that with Visual...

Hi, my name is Dmitri Leonov and I am an engineer on the VS debugger team. A couple of months ago with the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 , we shipped debugger improvements some of which were related to symbol and source loading as described in our previous blog post: “ Debugger Source Symbol Improvements...

In this post we’ll explore how to use IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Update 2 to debug custom Web Parts in a SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010 application. First we’ll summarize SharePoint’s use of correlation IDs and the IntelliTrace enhancements in VS2012 Update 2,...

When profiling managed applications on Windows 8 any samples in an NGEN’d module will appear in the report as [NI module name] instead of showing the function name, which obviously makes it difficult to understand the report. For example in the screenshot below you see [mscorlib.ni.dll], and I can see...

Visual Studio 2012 allows you to debug your application on your Windows RT device so that you can develop the application the same way that your customers will use it. Remote debugging is over your local network, which is really convenient when you are at home or at work and both machines are on the...

by Tarun Arora – see credit at the end of the post As part of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 , improvements have been made to the debugger for loading symbols and source. The improvements can be broken down into 4 buckets: Performance Improvements No Source Landing Page Load Symbols...