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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, 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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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:00 AM

Quick Tip: VS2008 - Compare Reports Quickly

While investigating a performance problem you may need to collect many Performance Reports and compare them. You can use the Performance Explorer to quickly compare two reports by: Selecting two reports. Right-clicking and choosing 'Compare Performance
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 4:26 PM

What code path is allocating the most bytes for a type?

In Visual Studio 2008, we added the ability to quickly determine the most expensive call stack in your application . In profiler parlance, the “most expensive call stack” is known as the “hot path”. What do we mean by “expensive”? “Expensive” is whatever
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:58 AM

Very Quick Tip: Getting the most out of your screen for viewing call trees

I spend a lot of time in the profiler's Call Tree view when I use the profiler. When you are really digging deep into the tree, screen real estate becomes a big issue. There is one very simple Visual Studio trick that really helps out so you can get more
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:54 PM

Quick Tip: "Save Analyzed" for large VSP files

One cool new feature in the Visual Studio 2008 Profiler is the ability to take a large VSP file that has been analyzed once and save the report data into a VSPS file ( V isual S tudio P rofiler S ummary files). Saving the analyzed data has several major
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