Parallel Diagnostic Tools

Visual Studio provides extensive support for debugging and profiling multi-threaded applications.

Debugging

The Visual Studio debugger adds new windows for debugging parallel applications. For more information, see the following topics:

• Using the Parallel Stacks Window

• Using the Tasks Window

• Walkthrough: Debugging a Parallel Application.

Profiling

The Concurrency Visualizer report views enable you to visualize how the threads in a parallel program interact with each other and with threads from other processes on the system. For more information, see Concurrency Visualizer.

See also

• Parallel Programming