Visual Studio Graphics Debugging

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7/17/2020

Information about the Visual Studio Graphics Debugger feature in Visual Studio by Ian Huff, one of the developers on the Graphics Debugging team

Basic Command Line Profiling

Hey all, It's been a little while since my last post as things have been (and continue to be) pretty...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 11/15/2005

Drawing Boxes and Line with the DataSet designer

One of the neat things about working on Visual Studio is that it is such a big and rich product that...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 10/21/2005

Team System MSDN Public Chat

Do you have questions about the profiler in Visual Studio Team System? Or perhaps you want to know...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 10/18/2005

The X05 event & Xbox360 co-op games

If you will permit me to back away from profiler talk for just a minute, I saw a lot to excite me at...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 10/05/2005

Impressed by Static Analysis

For the last two days we had a chance as a team to pick up a pre-release version of Team System and...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 09/30/2005

The F1 Profiler vs. .NET string comparisons

Recently I was working through some of our codebase working on converting some existing string...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005

Rico’s Performance Quiz Vs. The F1 Profiler

The Quiz: Recently Ricom posted a performance quiz on his blog asking about the performance scenario...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 08/25/2005

John Carmack on the Next Generation of Gaming

I’ve never been one to join in the cult worshiping of the various ID programmers, especially since...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 08/15/2005

Reviewing Data Display Websites and Programs: Harmony Central

It’s been a little while since my last entry about reviewing data display websites (Football...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 08/15/2005

Microsoft’s Ladybug system

One of the recent jobs that I have taken on for my team is being the point man for dealing with bugs...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 08/08/2005

Profiler improvements in the July CTP release of Visual Studio Team System

So if you are a customer and you are currently running on the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Team...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 08/02/2005

How to profile signed assemblies in instrumentation mode

If you have tried to profile signed binaries in instrumentation mode you may have seen the following...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 07/25/2005

Get scroll bar information from autoscroll controls in Managed C++

One of the early problems that I needed to solve when I started working at Microsoft was how to get...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 07/18/2005

Xbox 360 info

A week or two ago I got to attend a pretty nifty internal presentation on the Xbox 360. Now, almost...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 07/07/2005

Extensions for MSN desktop search

One of my favorite new tools to come out of Microsoft is the new desktop search tool. I keep this...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/30/2005

Getting version and company information in an interop DLL created with tlbimp

Recently at work I was called on to fix a bug regarding primary interop assemblies created with...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/16/2005

Public chats for Team Developer and Team Test editions of Visual Studio Team System

Every third Wednesday of the month at 10am PST there will be public chats for the Team Developer and...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/14/2005

Profiling a Unit Test

At our recent TechEd event, one of the most common questions that we are asked it if it is possible...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/10/2005

A few more hits

A few older articles that I forgot to include with my first post. Other Posts: What are Exclusive...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/09/2005

The Profiling Team’s Greatest Hits: Volume One

I’ve pulled together all of the technical articles and walkthroughs from the various team member...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/09/2005

Ars Technica on the XBox 360

Ars Technica has some of the best hardware coverage online. Here is part one of what looks to be an...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 06/01/2005

Buying an LCD Monitor / HDTV

Over the last week I’ve shopped for and purchased an LCD TV to use as both a computer monitor and as...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 05/31/2005

Hello Code Coverage! – Part 2

In my last walkthrough on code coverage I showed how to get code coverage data for a simple function...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 05/23/2005

Interesting article on VSTS’s place in the Visual Studio lineup

With the recent pricing announcements for Visual Studio Team System there has been a lot of...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 05/04/2005

Hello Code Coverage! - Part 1

What can I say…I’m a big fan of hello world type walkthroughs. With new technology you often just...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 04/26/2005

Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 4: Fixing the performance issue and analyzing the results.

The last three installments of this walkthrough have helped show you how to use the new profiler in...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 04/08/2005

Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 3: The Object Allocation and Object Lifetime views.

In this installment of my walkthroughs for using the new profiler in Visual Studio Team System, I’ll...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/31/2005

Visual Studio Team System Webcasts

Interested in finding out more about the upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2005? Then check out...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/30/2005

Reviewing Data Display Websites and Programs: ESPN.com’s NCAA Tournament Challenge

This is the third entry in my series of reviews of websites and programs that have to display a...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/22/2005

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Hidden in one of the many nooks and crannies on MSDN is this massive (1120 Printed pages) guide to...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/16/2005

Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 2: The Function, Caller / Callee and Calltree views

This is the second part of my walkthrough of using the profiler in Visual Studio Team System 2005 to...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/15/2005

Rico Mariani has a perf wiki up on Channel 9

Interested in writing application that perform well? If you’re not just messing around in your...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/09/2005

Second part of Channel 9 interview is live

The second part of my interview about the new Visual Studio Team System 2005 profiler is now posted...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/09/2005

Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 1: The Summary View

In my previous series of blog posts I’ve outlined how to create and configure a new profiling...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/08/2005

Channel 9 Demo is live!

The video demo of our profiler that I blogged about earlier has been posted to Microsoft’s Channel 9...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/07/2005

Reviewing Data Display Websites and Programs: Football Outsiders

This is my second entry in my series of reviews of websites (and a few programs) that are good or...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 03/01/2005

Performance Tools demo filmed for Channel 9

On Tuesday of this week I got a chance to demo our performance tools for Microsoft’s Channel Nine...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 02/24/2005

Using the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler in the IDE - Part 3: Using the Performance Explorer

For those of you who are new to these walkthroughs, I am detailing how the new profiler in Visual...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 02/21/2005

At a very general level, the main issue of my job is how to take a large amount of profiling data...

Author: IanHuff - MSFT Date: 02/16/2005

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