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02 November 2009
Improving the Start-up Performance of the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
I wanted to let you know about a last minute change that went into VS 2010 Beta 2 that you can use to improve the startup performance for the WPF and Silverlight Designer. The change went in late and it was a little risky, so we decided to leave it off Read More...
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29 October 2009
VS2010 Performance and Bad Video Drivers/Hardware
We’ve received a few performance complaints around Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) performance that can be traced to old video drivers or GPU virtualization issues. If you’re seeing slow / broken screen updates verify you have the latest drivers for your Read More...
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09 June 2009
Parallel Scalability Isn’t Child’s Play, Part 3: The Problem with Fine-Grained Parallelism
In the last blog entry in this series , I introduced the model for parallel program scalability proposed by Neil Gunther, which I praised for being a realistic antidote to more optimistic, but better known, formulas. Gunther’s model adds a new parameter Read More...
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12 May 2008
VS2008 SP1 and .NET FX Beta Performance Improvements
You probably already saw Soma’s Blog on the Beta for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 . If you can, please download and install the Beta quickly (be sure to read the readme for Visual Studio Professional and for Visual Studio Team System first). Read More...
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