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Friday, July 18, 2008 2:48 PM

Tip: VS2008 - Understanding Performance Targets

If you have a solution that contains multiple projects it is important to know what the 'Targets' group in the Performance Explorer is used for. The PeopleTrax solution shown on the right has 4 projects, with 3 of them compiling to managed DLLs and 1
Posted by colinth | 1 Comments
Friday, June 20, 2008 6:52 PM

Quick Tip: VS2008 - Compare Reports Quickly

While investigating a performance problem you may need to collect many Performance Reports and compare them. You can use the Performance Explorer to quickly compare two reports by: Selecting two reports. Right-clicking and choosing 'Compare Performance
Posted by colinth | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:34 PM

Tech-Ed 2008 Wrap-up

Quite a few people at Tech-Ed wanted to know more about the various components of Visual Studio Team System (which we sometimes refer to as SKUs). For example, how does Team Foundation Server (TFS) fit in with the client SKUs? What are the differences
Posted by colinth | 0 Comments
Monday, June 02, 2008 9:25 PM

Tech-Ed 2008 Demos

Last year my boss took a trip to sunny Orlando to present at Tech-Ed and to offer help and suggestions in the Technical Learning Center (TLC). This year I'm lucky enough to be attending with a couple of other folks (Habib and Tim) and since I'm not an
Posted by colinth | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:55 AM

Performance: Inserting Marks Using Code

Ian previously covered using the VS 2008 Data Collection Control to choose when to collect data . The Data Collection Control can also be used to insert marks into the performance report, but sometimes it is convenient to modify the source code to do
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:39 AM

Performance: Find Application Bottlenecks With Visual Studio Profiler

If you're a subscriber to msdn magazine , take a look at the article in the March 2008, Vol 23, No 4 issue on Page 81 which describes how to use the Visual Studio 2008 profiler to improve the performance of an application. A couple of members of the profiler
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:36 PM

Noise Reduction in the VS2008 Profiler

One of the new profiler features in Visual Studio Team System (VS2008) is called Noise Reduction. This feature is intended to make it easier to review the Call Tree view by reducing the amount of data that is displayed, while still showing the most important
Posted by colinth | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:32 PM

Free Microsoft Software (including VSTS) for IEEE Computer Society Student Members

I'm a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society and recently received requests to renew my subscriptions. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in 2008 student members of IEEE Computer Society can receive free software including Vista, Project, Visio
Posted by colinth | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:04 PM

Visual Studio Team System Chat – December 5th

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions
Posted by colinth | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:38 PM

Tools of the Trade

I've been thinking about what some of the most important tools are for me while coding. Here's a few: Good IDE - syntax highlighting, integrated builds, source control integration, search facility, debugger and profiler built-in. I use VSTS . Source control/bug
Posted by colinth | 3 Comments
Friday, July 27, 2007 12:14 AM

Visual Studio 2008, Beta 2 (now with some of my code)

Today we released Beta 2 of VS2008. This is the first public release from Microsoft that contains a nontrivial amount of code that I wrote (even though I haven't written too much code just yet). I had barely synched up the source tree and only fixed a
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Monday, May 07, 2007 2:28 PM

Basic Profiler Scenarios

This post was going to cover some basic scenarios discussing the differences between sampling and instrumentation and when you would choose to switch methods, but then I found there is already something like that in MSDN . If you haven't already, go and
Posted by colinth | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:01 PM

Why Performance Matters

Everybody likes to think that what they're working on is important so this is why I think performance (and measuring performance) matters and why it matters now more than ever. In the past chip manufacturers like Intel and AMD did a lot of the performance
Posted by colinth | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:36 PM

There's a Profiler in Visual Studio?

I've just started working in the Visual Studio Team System , Profiler team. Many people are surprised to hear that Visual Studio does actually have a profiler and that it has had one since Visual Studio 2005. To use the profiler you need either Visual
Posted by colinth | 3 Comments
 
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