Colin Thomsen's Microsoft Blog
I'm a developer working on the code profiler that ships with Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Ultimate editions. At a previous company I worked on computer vision software for face and gaze tracking.
Every so often, on days like today, I need to debug on a machine where I don't have a debugger...
Date: 06/30/2011
The GM of Visual Studio Ultimate, Cameron Skinner, recently gave a talk at Tech-Ed 2011 about...
Date: 05/17/2011
The ‘Just My Code’ feature in the profiler has a few differences to the ‘Just My Code’ feature in...
Date: 05/12/2011
The Visual Studio 2010 MSDN documentation includes some more detailed examples (including...
Date: 05/06/2011
VSPerfASPNetCmd is a new Visual Studio 2010 tool that helps you profile ASP.Net websites from the...
Date: 07/23/2010
The new guidance feature in the VS2010 profiler will look familiar to people who have used the...
Date: 02/25/2010
With Visual Studio 2010 we want to make it clearer when you are profiling your application within...
Date: 02/04/2010
I’ve already discussed how the new profiler summary page makes it easier to discover and fix...
Date: 01/18/2010
With Visual Studio 2010 we want to make it easier for customers to find and fix performance issues...
Date: 12/31/2009
In announcing the Visual Studio Beta 2 profiler features, Chris mentioned that we have a new option...
Date: 12/29/2009
Before Visual Studio 2010, in order to attach the profiler to a managed application, certain...
Date: 12/05/2009
This year if you didn't get a chance to go to the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC), there...
Date: 11/01/2008
This week Microsoft is starting to talk about Visual Studio 2010. One of the best resources I've...
Date: 09/30/2008
The Visual Studio Profiler has many properties and options and this tip shows you where to find most...
Date: 09/19/2008
If you have a solution that contains multiple projects it is important to know what the 'Targets'...
Date: 07/18/2008
While investigating a performance problem you may need to collect many Performance Reports and...
Date: 06/20/2008
Quite a few people at Tech-Ed wanted to know more about the various components of Visual Studio Team...
Date: 06/10/2008
I use a bunch of Sysinternals tools for diagnosing problems while developing. My two favorites are:...
Date: 05/30/2008
Ian previously covered using the VS 2008 Data Collection Control to choose when to collect data. The...
Date: 05/01/2008
If you're a subscriber to msdn magazine, take a look at the article in the March 2008, Vol 23, No 4...
Date: 03/13/2008
One of the new profiler features in Visual Studio Team System (VS2008) is called Noise Reduction....
Date: 01/31/2008
Have you ever wanted to quickly run a C# application without having to setup a new project in Visual...
Date: 12/31/2007
I'm a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society and recently received requests to renew my...
Date: 11/27/2007
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team...
Date: 11/21/2007
There are a lot of Microsoft bloggers, literally thousands of them. When I first joined Microsoft I...
Date: 10/16/2007
I've been thinking about what some of the most important tools are for me while coding. Here's a...
Date: 08/15/2007
In C++, memory allocated with the 'new' keyword must be deallocated using 'delete' or it is not...
Date: 08/08/2007
Today we released Beta 2 of VS2008. This is the first public release from Microsoft that contains a...
Date: 07/27/2007
I was trying to write some type-generic (almost) code in C# using a pattern that I commonly use in...
Date: 07/02/2007
I hadn't heard the term dogfooding used much before I started here, but it has already been...
Date: 06/07/2007
Tech-Ed 2007 is starting tomorrow and the Profiler Team is sending a few people to sunny Orlando for...
Date: 06/03/2007
I went to a meeting with Rico the other day and he showed us a few approaches he uses when solving...
Date: 05/21/2007
I'm from a C++ background and now I'm working quite a bit more with C# so I'm learning new things...
Date: 05/14/2007
This post was going to cover some basic scenarios discussing the differences between sampling and...
Date: 05/07/2007
Everybody likes to think that what they're working on is important so this is why I think...
Date: 04/18/2007
I've just started working in the Visual Studio Team System, Profiler team. Many people are surprised...
Date: 04/12/2007