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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:21 AM

Collecting performance counter information with the Visual Studio Team System profiler

Collecting performance counter information with the Visual Studio Team System profiler Introduction If you have ever done performance work on Windows systems you are probably already familiar with the PerfMon tool . This tool gives you an overview of
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Friday, September 14, 2007 10:34 AM

Pinpoint a performance issue using hotpath in Visual Studio 2008

Analyzing a performance report When you first open a performance report in Visual Studio 90% of the time the question on your mind is “where is my program spending most of its time?” In Visual Studio 2005 the best way to find this was to move to the calltree
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:29 AM

The New Developer Menu in Visual Studio Team System

The new Developer menu in Visual Studio Team System In my recent series of blog posts I’ve been covering some of the cool new features that the Visual Studio Profiler team has been adding to the code profiler that is included with Visual Studio Team System
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:44 AM

The Visual Studio Profiler Data Collection Control Part 1: Excluding Application Startup Time

The Visual Studio Profiler Data Collection Control Part 1: Excluding Application Startup Time Even if you are familiar with Visual Studio Team System you may not already know that a powerful profiler is included with both the Developer and Team Suite
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:54 AM

Comparing performance reports with the Visual Studio Team System Profiler

Comparing performance reports with the Visual Studio Team System Profiler With the recent release of the first Beta for Visual Studio Team System ( codename Orcas ) customers will get their first chance to see all the great new features that we are adding
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Friday, October 06, 2006 2:05 PM

Two years in the software performance world

This past summer marked my second year (plus one summer internship) of working at Microsoft and on the Visual Studio Team System profiler . As a fresh out of college hire I had no experience working with large applications or working with application
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Monday, July 17, 2006 4:52 PM

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
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:55 PM

Fuslogvw.exe and diagnosing .NET assembly binding issues

So let’s say that you are working with a large managed project and for some reason, one of your binary files just refuses to load. Perhaps you get some esoteric error message and perhaps not. If so then you may very well be in the world of managed assembly
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:19 AM

Profiling IO Bound applications with Visual Studio Team System – Part One

It just so happens (and I know that I’ve mentioned it here before) that the Visual Studio Team System Profiler has both sampling and instrumentation modes available for you to use. However, in most of my samples so far I’ve been using the sampling mode
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:45 AM

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
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:33 AM

Visual Studio Team System 2005 Code Coverage Tool FAQ

This FAQ will collect the most common questions that are asked about the code coverage tool that is included with Visual Studio Team System for Developers (and Team Suite edition). Q: Why am I seeing some uncovered blocks in my program when I’m sure that
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:59 AM

Advanced instrumenting with the VSTS profiler 101: /start

When you are working with the Visual Studio profiler in instrumentation mode you often want to be able to limit the amount of data that you are seeing. I posted an earlier TechNote (from an Angry Richard blog article ) that described (in 40,000 foot terms)
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:21 AM

Code coverage and the foreach loop

In our support forums for Visual Studio Team System I’ve seen a large number of questions from customers who have seen inconsistencies from the code coverage tool when covering sections of code that containing a foreach loop. What customers are seeing
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Monday, December 19, 2005 3:55 PM

Performance Profiling Parse vs. TryParse vs. ConvertTo

When programming in .Net you are presented with several different ways to extract a numerical value (I’m using an Int32 for my example) from a string. Recently I was looking at the differences between Parse, TryParse and ConvertTo. So I figured that I
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Monday, December 05, 2005 4:22 PM

Visual Studio Team System TechNotes

Looking for some good information on the Visual Studio Team System profiler or just on Team System topics in general? The kind folks at MSDN have opened up a new section of TechNotes to aggregate lots of quick-hitting articles on various Team System components.
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