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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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29 October 2009
Tell us about VS2010 Beta2
Last week we shipped Beta 2 for broad distribution. Many of you have already sent us comments and improvement suggestions (thanks!) At this point we are down to our final set of bug fixing, perf tuning, etc. We’re very interested in your feedback so we Read More...
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23 December 2008
Visual Studio 2010 Hardware Requirements
Soma’s been talking about the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release on his blog , which means I’m starting to get questions about what type of hardware you’re going to need to run VS2010 on. Unfortunately, I can’t give you an official answer yet (other Read More...
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18 June 2008
Lessons from the test lab: investigating a pleasant surprise
This post describes our recent investigation into an interesting performance problem: benchmarks that we were surprised to find running significantly faster than we expected on new hardware. Along the way we discuss useful benchmarking tools, how to validate Read More...
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20 May 2008
Visual Studio Performance Testing -- Noise is Enemy #1
Performance testing is essential to our quest to make Visual Studio provide a highly responsive user experience. We do performance testing early and often. Before a new feature is checked into the main branch, a test build is created, and 100 to 200 tests 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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