scarroll's Blog
A blog about Visual Studio Profiling, Code Coverage and CS Research!
Hey all, Marc (the QA lead) and myself (the Dev lead) of the VSTS profiler are sitting in front of...
Date: 06/04/2007
Sawatdee Khrup! So I arrived in Thailand for Visual Studio Launch which will be in BecTero Hall here...
Date: 11/14/2005
UPDATE: msdn2 seems to be flaking on this... I stuck a msn cached version below. I just noticed that...
Date: 10/07/2005
Here's another fun one from the internal support alias. When you profile with the VS Profiler, you...
Date: 07/25/2005
Online registration for the Meltdown DirectX conference ends tomorrow July 22. I tried my best to...
Date: 07/21/2005
The most common reason for this to occur in Instrumentation mode is that the dll you instrumented is...
Date: 07/21/2005
I'm speaking at the Microsoft Meltdown 2005 conference at the end of the month. The topic is tips...
Date: 06/30/2005
Hey folks. We have a public chat scheduled for tomorrow. I just checked the schedule and we have a...
Date: 06/13/2005
My illustrious co-worker, Ian, is compiling a central resource of all the most essential profiler...
Date: 06/09/2005
I had to help a high school kid solve this problem yesterday. It’s pretty interesting I think.I sent...
Date: 06/08/2005
Total tangent here, but I just made a really great meal and I must blog about it. Side Dish: Roasted...
Date: 05/28/2005
The symbols for several key CLR Beta2 Symbols are finally on the symbol server. Go forth and...
Date: 05/27/2005
Sorry folks. I want to update this blog about this issue. We just made another symbol publication...
Date: 05/25/2005
A lot of my graduate work was in the area of parallel computing so we spent a lot of time with...
Date: 05/19/2005
There was a problem with the original publication of the CLR Symbols for some binaries (mscoree,...
Date: 05/17/2005
I took the MSFT "Intern Mentoring" training last week in preparation for the impending arrival of my...
Date: 05/16/2005
I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks. I promise to be a good little blogger and write more...
Date: 04/13/2005
One of our big missions here in VS Profiler land is to bring profiling tools to people who maybe...
Date: 04/13/2005
Profiling FAQ #3: How do -exclude and -include on vsinstr differ from -start / -suspend / -resume, etc.
VSinstr has two different categories of switches. The first category of switches control which...
Date: 04/13/2005
Who wrote it:Thomas J. Ostrand, Elaine J. Weyuker, Robert M. Bell from ATT Labs - Research What's it...
Date: 04/13/2005
What's the name of the paper? Efficient and Precise Dynamic Impact Analysis Using Execute-After...
Date: 04/10/2005
So I'm going to try to add a new category of posts to this blog for interesting papers in Computer...
Date: 04/10/2005
This is actually just a corollary of the "Why don't instrumentation and sampling calltrees look the...
Date: 04/08/2005
This post is adapted from an internal mail. The customers were somewhat confused about the reason...
Date: 04/08/2005
I watched all 50 minutes of Rico Mariani's new Channel9 video which can be found at...
Date: 04/07/2005
The most common question that comes in to the internal profiler by far is "Why am I not seeing any...
Date: 04/07/2005
Don't laugh! I've seen this happen a few times now. In the UI , if you are debugging your debug...
Date: 04/07/2005
So over the past two months, I've been busy with the rolling out of the VS profiler to as many...
Date: 04/07/2005
The Code Coverage instrumentation in Visual Studio is based on binary instrumentation instead of...
Date: 02/14/2005
Hey folks, I'm taking a quick survey. If you are currently using code coverage metrics in your...
Date: 02/14/2005
In the code coverage analysis in VSTS, we provide two types of stats: block coverage and line...
Date: 01/14/2005
I'm looking for a good book on performance analysis for database-centric applications and/or web...
Date: 07/14/2004
I'm about 250 pages into The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis : Techniques for...
Date: 07/14/2004
Hello World. My name is Steve Carroll, and I'm a developer on the Visual Studio Team System team....
Date: 05/27/2004