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Saturday, November 01, 2008 3:07 PM

PDC 2008 - See the Sessions

This year if you didn't get a chance to go to the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) , there is still a wealth of information available to you. The most valuable resource I think are the videos of all the PDC sessions. Here are a few of the sessions
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:53 PM

Visual Studio 2010

This week Microsoft is starting to talk about Visual Studio 2010. One of the best resources I've seen has a bunch of videos from various Microsoft folks about some of the new features and what the high-level goals of the next release of Visual Studio
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Friday, September 19, 2008 7:47 PM

Tip: VS2008 – Finding and Setting Properties (Right-Click)

The Visual Studio Profiler has many properties and options and this tip shows you where to find most of them. Future posts may cover some of the specific properties in more detail. Performance Session:   Select an existing Performance Session in
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friday, May 30, 2008 10:28 AM

Sysinternals is Live

I use a bunch of Sysinternals tools for diagnosing problems while developing. My two favorites are: Process Explorer , a more fully-featured version of Task Manager that can report environment variables for running processes, show loaded DLLs and even
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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
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Monday, December 31, 2007 4:29 PM

Scripting for C#

Have you ever wanted to quickly run a C# application without having to setup a new project in Visual Studio and configure all the settings? A fellow developer here at Microsoft has written a tool called Code Runner .NET that allows just that. It isn't
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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
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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
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:50 PM

Microsoft Blogs I Read

There are a lot of Microsoft bloggers, literally thousands of them. When I first joined Microsoft I wasn't sure who to read. I've gradually built up a list based on interesting product and feature announcements and people I've met. Here they are: Profiling
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