March 2005 - Posts

• Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 3: The Object Allocation and Object Lifetime views.

  In this installment of my walkthroughs for using the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System , I’ll be showing how to collect and view some interesting data about managed objects. To enable the collection of managed object data, you’ll need to set the Read More... Posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:28 AM by ianhu | 5 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Visual Studio Team System Webcasts

  Interested in finding out more about the upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2005 ? Then check out this series of upcoming webcasts which detail some of the main features of Visual Studio Team System. Thanks to Rob Caron for pointing these out. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:42 PM by ianhu | 0 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Reviewing Data Display Websites and Programs: ESPN.com’s NCAA Tournament Challenge

  This is the third entry in my series of reviews of websites and programs that have to display a large amount of data to the user. By examining what sites do right and wrong, I can come up with good idea for how to make the data display better for the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:46 AM by ianhu | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

  Hidden in one of the many nooks and crannies on MSDN is this massive (1120 Printed pages) guide to improving the performance and scalability of .NET applications . It’s been available for a while, but I just discovered it, and wanted to pass the goodness Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:43 AM by ianhu | 0 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 2: The Function, Caller / Callee and Calltree views

  This is the second part of my walkthrough of using the profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 to analyze a performance issue. In the first part of my walkthrough , we used the summary view to highlight two possible performance hotspots in our application. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:41 AM by ianhu | 3 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Rico Mariani has a perf wiki up on Channel 9

  Interested in writing application that perform well? If you’re not just messing around in your parent’s basement, then you should be. It can be too tempting at times to not optimize your code for performance and just continue to up the minimum system Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:26 PM by ianhu | 1 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• Second part of Channel 9 interview is live

  The second part of my interview about the new Visual Studio Team System 2005 profiler is now posted on Microsoft’s Channel 9 community website . You can check it out on the main page or link to the specific post here . Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:50 AM by ianhu | 0 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 1: The Summary View

  In my previous series of blog posts I’ve outlined how to create and configure a new profiling session in Visual Studio Team System 2005 . Now I’m going to take a look at using the various analysis views provided by the IDE to diagnose a performance issue Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:02 PM by ianhu | 4 Comments Filed under: Profiler

• Channel 9 Demo is live!

  The video demo of our profiler that I blogged about earlier has been posted to Microsoft’s Channel 9 community web site. Check it out on the Channel 9 front page or link to the specific video post . There should also be an interview portion coming up Read More... Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 1:23 PM by ianhu | 3 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• Reviewing Data Display Websites and Programs: Football Outsiders

  This is my second entry in my series of reviews of websites (and a few programs) that are good or bad examples of how to display a large amount of data. This topic is of particular interest to me, as my job involves how to take large amounts of profiling Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:03 AM by ianhu | 2 Comments Filed under: Random