VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Visualizer Profiling In Depth First Look
One of the most important technologies used at Microsoft is Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), especially inside Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. There’s a small problem with ETW. It’s […]
VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Resource Profiling In Depth First Look
Nearly everyone reading this is using a machine with multiple cores. With a basic laptop containing a dual core CPU and your average desktop with a four core CPU, we […]
VS 2010 Beta 2 Sampling and Instrumentation Profiling In Depth First Look
While some teams solve their performance problems by throwing bigger hardware at the problem, many of us really do care about creating fast code. Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer Edition […]
VS 2010 Beta 2 IntelliTrace In-Depth First Look
After getting a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I was dying to see the amazing IntelliTrace feature. You know IntelliTrace as Historical Debugging, but consider HD as […]
My VS 2010 Beta 2 Install Experience
While I was hoping that VS 2010 would just install itself as soon as I downloaded the bits, they haven’t quite gotten that feature working just yet. I guess the […]
VS 2010 Beta 2 Code Analysis In-Depth First Look
Code Analysis is one of those great tools that people don’t run nearly enough. I have screamed repeatedly, “Never do anything at run time you can do at compile time.” […]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is on MSDN!
Go grab it and let the fun begin. See the Beta 2 home page to see what’s new and how to get the bits.
Initially Turning on FxCop/Code Analysis for a Large Code Base
Recently I was asked a question that’s come up several times so I thought I’d share the answer. I’ve inherited a large code base that has never had FxCop run […]
Updated Compile-Help.PS1 and Neat PowerShell Scripting Tricks
One of my favorite PowerShell scripts of all time is Jeff Hillman’s Compile-Help. Instead of attempting to read the PowerShell help in a text window, Jeff’s outstanding script packages up […]