Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog : orcas

Quick Tip: "Save Analyzed" for large VSP files

profiler — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:54:00 GMT

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 (Visual Studio Profiler Summary files). Saving the analyzed data has several major benefits:

The analyzed data is orders of magnitude smaller than the VSP file. We've seen 4GB trace VSPs get compressed into less than 100K VSPS files.
Because the data saved in the VSPS files has already been processed by our data analyzer, it will load up much faster.
Symbol data is automatically packed into the VSPS file.

VSPS files because of their small size, quick analysis, and saved symbols are perfect for use as saved baselines with the new performance comparison functionality in VS2008. A best practice is to regularly save off VSPS files for your performance scenarios so you can look for performance regressions from one milestone to the next.

This feature is not particularly discoverable. Here's a quick map of where to find it (highlighted in yellow):

One caveat: because the data has already been analyzed in the VSPS file, you can't use filters on VSPS files.

[Steve Carroll - scarroll]

Articles on new Visual Studio Team System 2008 profiler features

profiler — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:10:00 GMT

I’ve recently been working on a series of post on my blog about many of the cool new features that we are adding in Visual Studio Team System 2008 (codename Orcas). So I figured that I’d post a quick link here to all the articles that I’ve finished so far.

Collecting Performance Counter information with the Visual Studio Profiler

Pinpoint a performance issue using hotpath in Visual Studio 2008

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

Comparing performance reports with the Visual Studio Team System Profiler

[ianhu]

S. Somasegar on new profiler features

profiler — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:33:00 GMT

S. Somasegar the VP of Developer Division has just put up a post on his weblog detailing some new profiler and debugger features up coming in VS 2008. Check out the article here.

[ianhu]

Introducing new Visual Studio Profiler Features in the Orcas Beta

profiler — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:32:00 GMT

Hey all, I'm rolling out a new series of articles about the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler features that will be included with the latest Orcas beta release. Check out the first article on comparison documents here.

~Ian