Developer Division Performance Engineering blog

News and commentary on developing scalable Windows applications with Visual Studio

Jason Zander just posted an article on Performance Troubleshooting Article and VS2010 SP1 Change,...

Date: 03/01/2011

We'd like to know what you think about Visual Studio 2010. We are especially interested in hearing...

Date: 10/10/2010

Since we shipped Visual Studio 2010 we've continued to have a small but notable series of complaints...

Date: 09/16/2010

If you're running Visual Studio 2010 on XP or Vista you may benefit from installing this upgrade:...

Date: 08/16/2010

Brian Harry's just posted an article on configuring an ideal Visual Studio development machine. You...

Date: 04/29/2010

Being focused on the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 for the past six months or so, I,...

Date: 01/26/2010

Brian Harry is continuing a great series of posts on VS2010 performance, you can read the latest in...

Date: 12/08/2009

Brian Harry has posted a discussion of Intellisense performance improvements in VS2010 that we've...

Date: 12/04/2009

I wanted to let you know about a last minute change that went into VS 2010 Beta 2 that you can use...

Date: 11/02/2009

[Note, this post is superceeded by a newer post here.] We’ve received a few performance...

Date: 10/29/2009

Last week we shipped Beta 2 for broad distribution. Many of you have already sent us comments and...

Date: 10/29/2009

In the last blog entry in this series, I introduced the model for parallel program scalability...

Date: 06/09/2009

Recently, a colleague of mine, Mark Friedman, posted a blog titled “Parallel Scalability Isn’t...

Date: 05/02/2009

Part 1 of this series of blog entries discussed results from simulating the performance of a...

Date: 04/29/2009

In a recent blog entry, Dr. Neil Gunther, a colleague from the Computer Measurement Group (CMG),...

Date: 03/16/2009

Soma’s been talking about the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release on his blog, which means I’m...

Date: 12/24/2008

Over the past several weeks, I have been working overtime developing a presentation on web...

Date: 10/22/2008

This is a continuation of Part IV of this article posted here. Note that a final version of a white...

Date: 09/18/2008

This is a continuation of Part III of this article posted here. In the many-core era, the host...

Date: 09/08/2008

We just announced the release of Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. A major push for this...

Date: 08/13/2008

This is a continuation of Part II of this article posted here. By necessity, both the hardware and...

Date: 08/05/2008

This is a continuation of Part I of this article posted here. In Part 1 of this article, we looked...

Date: 07/27/2008

One of the intriguing aspects of the onset of the many-core processor era is the necessity of using...

Date: 06/09/2008

Part 1 of the slide presentation. Sigmetrics Tutorial On Control Engineering -- Part 1 -...

Date: 06/02/2008

Part 2 of the slide presentation. Sigmetrics Tutorial on Control Engineering -- Part 2 - Self-Tuning...

Date: 06/02/2008

Our DDPE colleague Joe Hellerstein, along with Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois), Yixin Diao...

Date: 06/02/2008

Performance testing is essential to our quest to make Visual Studio provide a highly responsive user...

Date: 05/19/2008

You probably already saw Soma’s Blog on the Beta for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1. If you...

Date: 05/12/2008

Across the Developer Division, we have made a concerted effort to make Visual Studio 2008 the best...

Date: 04/28/2008

Intel briefed customers recently about the evolution of its processor architectures to support...

Date: 03/31/2008

The Performance of Desktop Applications in the ManyCore Era The Quad-cores are coming! The...

Date: 03/21/2008

The Performance of Desktop Applications in the ManyCore Era The Quad-cores are coming! The...

Date: 03/21/2008