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Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:00 PM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available Now!

On Monday, we released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to the web!  In the new, simplified product lineup, you will find the profiler in the Premium and Ultimate editions. We’ve made a lot of progress since Beta 1 with the profiler
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:25 PM

Write Faster Code with VS 2010 Profiler

Well, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is finally here!!! WooHoo. As you may have seen in Brian Harry’s blog , we have added quite a few new features to Profiler to help you write faster code . The following is a list of the new features. In this list, I have
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:56 PM

Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool

Originating in Microsoft Research as Ajax View , the Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool was released today ( download here ).  It’s a JavaScript performance profiler with a novel approach: it modifies the code sent by your server
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:19 AM

Website Performance Talk at MIX09

John Hrvatin, lead program manager on the IE team, recently gave a talk at MIX09 entitled “Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites” (see the presentation key below).  John goes over a number of common performance pitfalls encountered
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:32 PM

Patch Released To Fix Sampling On Intel Core i7 Processors

A hotfix has been issued for those of you trying to do sample profiling on Intel’s Nehalem-based processors, the most recently released being the Intel Core i7 family. Previously, trying to do so would result in a blue screen of death (i.e. Windows crash,
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Monday, October 27, 2008 12:39 AM

See The Profiler At PDC2008

Steve Carroll, development lead for the Visual Studio Profiler, will be at PDC2008 next week giving a presentation on the profiler: What: TL24: Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability When: Wednesday, October 29th, 1:15pm - 2:30pm Where:
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:54 PM

Walkthroughs: Using VSTS Test and Profilers to Find Performance Issues

Tess Ferrandez recently wrote a couple of articles that extend her popular series of debugging labs to focus on measuring and improving performance. In ' Using VSTS Test and Profilers to troubleshoot performance issues (low cpu hang) ', Tess introduces
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Monday, September 22, 2008 10:02 AM

Tip: VS2008 – Finding and Setting Properties (Right-Click)

The Visual Studio Profiler has many properties and options and this tip shows you where to find most of them. Future posts may cover some of the specific properties in more detail. Performance Session: Select an existing Performance Session in the Performance
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Friday, September 05, 2008 1:46 PM

Visual Studio Profiler: Found A Bug? Have A Suggestion?

The profiler is not flawless.  We work hard every day to improve it, however, and we’re always listening to and considering your feedback.  The profiler exists to help you, so if you feel it has shortcomings or if it fails to fully address your
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Friday, August 22, 2008 3:38 PM

VS2008 SP1 Website Profiling Bug And Workaround

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, while fixing many profiling bugs, has also unfortunately introduced an issue with website profiling. If you have a website project created with a pre-SP1 version of Visual Studio and then try to profile it using instrumentation
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Monday, August 11, 2008 10:51 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released To The World!

After months of development and some grueling bug fixes, we released the VS2008 SP1 patch to the web this morning.  You can check out more details in the readme .  For the profiler, we fixed a number of bugs including: Adding support for instrumenting
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:35 PM

Walkthrough: Profiling With Automated Tests

When doing performance investigations, we recommend having some well-defined scenario in mind in order to increase the reproducibility of your issue and increase the consistency of profiling data collected.  This approach is similar in spirit to
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:22 PM

Sample Profiling And Stdin

Some command-line applications can read from stdin for use as program input.  The canonical example of this is sort.exe which sorts the list of strings given to it and prints it back out to the console: C:\Temp> type letters.txt m z a C:\Temp>
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Friday, July 18, 2008 1:59 PM

Tip: VS2008 - Understanding Performance Targets

If you have a solution that contains multiple projects it is important to know what the 'Targets' group in the Performance Explorer is used for. The PeopleTrax solution shown on the right has 4 projects, with 3 of them compiling to managed DLLs and 1
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 7:57 PM

Excluding Small Functions From Instrumentation

In Visual Studio 2008, we added a feature to exclude small functions from instrumentation. A small function is a function that has very few instructions and makes no function calls (i.e. it’s a leaf). The idea behind this feature is that small functions
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