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• Profiler

• Depends.exe and working with assembly dependencies

  So in my last blog article I talked about using the fuslogvw.exe tool to figure out .NET assembly binding issues. In this article I’m going to look at another tool that I find myself using daily in the debugging world, depends.exe. In a nutshell, depends Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 4:52 PM by ianhu | 1 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• Using the new Connect community feedback system for Visual Studio Team System

  For my team I’m the point man on tracking all of the customer feedback bugs that we get submitted from external users. This is one of the best parts of my job as I really enjoy interacting with customers and getting to keep my finger on the pulse of what Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:45 AM by ianhu | 0 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• VSTS Team Suite Edition boxed up and ready to roll

  Just yesterday I moseyed down to our team admin’s office and picked up my boxed copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite edition. While we did officially ship some time before this it was still a pretty fun occasion for me to pick up the first “box” of software Read More... Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:34 PM by ianhu | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Impressed by Static Analysis

  For the last two days we had a chance as a team to pick up a pre-release version of Team System and give it a through user scenario test to see if we could sign off on it being a quality product. I actually quite enjoyed this as it gave me a change to Read More... Posted Friday, September 30, 2005 1:09 PM by ianhu | 0 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• Extensions for MSN desktop search

  One of my favorite new tools to come out of Microsoft is the new desktop search tool. I keep this tool running over basically all of my computers directories and it can be a real lifesaver at times. When I need to find what source file an interface that Read More... Posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:35 AM by ianhu | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Getting version and company information in an interop DLL created with tlbimp

  Recently at work I was called on to fix a bug regarding primary interop assemblies created with tlbimp. Our issue was in finding out how to get the correct company name and version info into the interop assemblies, since tlbimp does not let you specify Read More... Posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:57 PM by ianhu | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Ian’s top eight things about working at Microsoft

  One year ago today, I started my full-time (I was also a former summer intern) employment here at Microsoft. It seems like as good a chance as any to reflect on the things that I enjoy about working here. So since June 8 th is the date, here are the top Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:51 AM by ianhu | 15 Comments Filed under: Microsoft General

• Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 4: Fixing the performance issue and analyzing the results.

  The last three installments of this walkthrough have helped show you how to use the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 . In this final section, I’ll show how to jump into the code to fix a performance issue, then how to run the profiler again Read More... Posted Friday, April 08, 2005 10:34 AM by ianhu | 4 Comments Filed under: Profiler, Microsoft General

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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