February 2005 - Posts

• Performance Tools demo filmed for Channel 9

  On Tuesday of this week I got a chance to demo our performance tools for Microsoft’s Channel Nine community web site. One of the community team members liked my blog postings ( Part one , Part two and Part three are all up now), and contacted me about Read More... Posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:32 PM by ianhu | 4 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Using the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler in the IDE - Part 3: Using the Performance Explorer

  For those of you who are new to these walkthroughs, I am detailing how the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 works from within the IDE. If this is your first look at these walkthroughs, check out part one for my introduction and to learn Read More... Posted Monday, February 21, 2005 8:24 AM by ianhu | 3 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Reviewing Data Display Websites and Programs: Social Security Administration's Index of Popular Baby Names

  At a very general level, the main issue of my job is how to take a large amount of profiling data and present it to the user in a way that is useful, quick, intuitive and pleasant. While it may seem funny that pleasant was included in that list, look Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:53 AM by ianhu | 4 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Using the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler in the IDE - Part 2: Configure settings for a profiling run

  Welcome back to my walkthrough of how to use the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 . If you are unfamiliar with the new profiler, check out the first part of my walkthrough to get some basic info about the profiler. In the last section of Read More... Posted Friday, February 11, 2005 3:50 PM by ianhu | 8 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Gibson Digital Guitar and Microsoft

  Alright! Time for my first off-topic post on here, now I get to be a real blogger. Just last month at NAMM , a music industry trade show, Gibson introduced their new digital guitar . The guitar looks and performs like a typical Les Paul , expect for two Read More... Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:24 AM by ianhu | 4 Comments

• Using the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler in the IDE - Part 1: Starting a new performance session

  When I started working at Microsoft this past June, I was excited about two main aspects of my job. First off, I was going to work with developer tools. It’s a truly great thing to be able to work with and to improve a product that you yourself rely on Read More... Posted Monday, February 07, 2005 4:11 PM by ianhu | 15 Comments Filed under: Profiler