Visual Studio Graphics Debugging
Information about the Visual Studio Graphics Debugger feature in Visual Studio by Ian Huff, one of the developers on the Graphics Debugging team
Visualizing Common DirectX Performance Problems with GPU Usage in Visual Studio 2015
With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 we’ve been hard at work adding some...
Date: 02/04/2016
GPU Usage for DirectX in Visual Studio
In both Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and in the new Visual Studio 2015 Preview releases there is a...
Date: 12/16/2014
Visual Studio 2013 Windows Store DirectX Templates
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 one of the very cool new things that might easily go...
Date: 03/07/2014
IntelliTrace Web Requests
IntelliTrace Web Requests Moving forward the Visual Studio team is committed to bringing new updates...
Date: 04/05/2012
SP1 Beta 1 out (64-bit and Sharepoint support for IntelliTrace)
Not much new stuff to write about, as our next version plans are still being kept pretty close to...
Date: 12/09/2010
My IntelliTrace Introduction for Visual Studio Magazine
I got a chance recently to write an article for Visual Studio Magazine providing an introduction to...
Date: 08/02/2010
IntelliTrace links
IntelliTrace Links Currently our team is deep in the throes of MQ (Milestone Quality, essentially a...
Date: 05/25/2010
IntelliTrace on 64-bit apps using Microsoft Test Manager
From lots (and I do mean lots) of customer tweets and comments we know that folks are unhappy with...
Date: 04/22/2010
IntelliTrace – What we collect
When introducing a new feature like IntelliTrace you’re bound to get a lot of incorrect information...
Date: 03/16/2010
Creating custom IntelliTrace events
If you've read into IntelliTrace events at all you've probably seen the potential in writing your...
Date: 03/08/2010
IntelliTrace Tales #1
Currently here at Microsoft (on the diagnostics team in particular ;) ) many of us are using...
Date: 03/02/2010
Navigating your source code with IntelliTrace debugging
If you’ve looked at previous articles on IntelliTrace you’ll have noticed that IntelliTrace has two...
Date: 02/26/2010
IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Magazine
Visual Studio Magazine just posted an article online providing a little introduction to IntelliTrace...
Date: 02/24/2010
IntelliTrace and CollectionPlan.xml
Even if you’ve already spent some time getting familiar with IntelliTrace (our new debugger logging...
Date: 02/10/2010
A Quick Tour of IntelliTrace Options
I’m the type of guy that when I fire up a new PC game my first stop before I even start playing is...
Date: 02/03/2010
IntelliTrace and Microsoft Test Manager
One of our main goals with IntelliTrace was to help close down the “no repro” gap between developers...
Date: 01/26/2010
IntelliTrace iTrace Files
If you are not familiar with the new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio Team System 2010 than you...
Date: 11/16/2009
Adios Historical Debugging. Hello IntelliTrace.
It’s been a little while since I’ve gotten a post up here due in part to two main reasons. First...
Date: 10/20/2009
IntelliTrace Events
IntelliTrace Events (edited 1/27/2010 to update branding from Diagnostic Event to IntelliTrace...
Date: 06/18/2009
Back To Blogging
Back to Blogging So for the last 18 months or so there has been nary a peep on this blog about...
Date: 05/13/2009
Collecting performance counter information with the Visual Studio Team System profiler
Collecting performance counter information with the Visual Studio Team System profiler Introduction...
Date: 10/17/2007
Pinpoint a performance issue using hotpath in Visual Studio 2008
Analyzing a performance report When you first open a performance report in Visual Studio 90% of the...
Date: 09/14/2007
The New Developer Menu in Visual Studio Team System
The new Developer menu in Visual Studio Team System In my recent series of blog posts I’ve been...
Date: 08/07/2007
The Visual Studio Profiler Data Collection Control Part 1: Excluding Application Startup Time
The Visual Studio Profiler Data Collection Control Part 1: Excluding Application Startup Time Even...
Date: 07/17/2007
Comparing performance reports with the Visual Studio Team System Profiler
Comparing performance reports with the Visual Studio Team System Profiler With the recent release of...
Date: 04/03/2007
Team System MSDN Chat tomorrow at 10:00am
Tomorrow there will be one of the first MSDN Team System chats in a while at 10:00am Pacific time....
Date: 09/05/2006
Process Explorer
Sorry about the lack of updates here recently. Currently we are in a rather difficult stage to write...
Date: 08/31/2006
Depends.exe and working with assembly dependencies
So in my last blog article I talked about using the fuslogvw.exe tool to figure out .NET assembly...
Date: 07/17/2006
Fuslogvw.exe and diagnosing .NET assembly binding issues
So let’s say that you are working with a large managed project and for some reason, one of your...
Date: 07/12/2006
Profiling IO Bound applications with Visual Studio Team System – Part One
It just so happens (and I know that I’ve mentioned it here before) that the Visual Studio Team...
Date: 06/21/2006
Using the new Connect community feedback system for Visual Studio Team System
For my team I’m the point man on tracking all of the customer feedback bugs that we get submitted...
Date: 06/14/2006
Working with the Data Collection API in sampling mode
In previous blogs we’ve talked about using the Data Collection API to limit the amount of data that...
Date: 05/31/2006
In Visual Studio Team System can you profile and debug at the same time?
A customer recently asked me if the profiler included with Visual Studio Team System would allow you...
Date: 05/30/2006
Web and Load Testing FAQ
The web and load testing teams here have also put together an FAQ to address the most common issues...
Date: 05/08/2006
Visual Studio Team System 2005 Code Coverage Tool FAQ
This FAQ will collect the most common questions that are asked about the code coverage tool that is...
Date: 04/19/2006
Visual Studio Team System FAQ
I just recently whipped up a FAQ on the profiler to post as a sticky thread in the VSTS for...
Date: 04/07/2006
MSDN public chat this Wed
This Wednesday the Team System Developer and Tester Tools team will be having a public chat at 10:00...
Date: 03/14/2006
Running the F1 profiler on Rico’s Perf Quiz #9
Rico’s posted another performance quiz on his blog, which means that I get to run the F1 profiler on...
Date: 03/10/2006
Advanced instrumenting with the VSTS profiler 101: /start
When you are working with the Visual Studio profiler in instrumentation mode you often want to be...
Date: 02/07/2006
Code coverage and the foreach loop
In our support forums for Visual Studio Team System I’ve seen a large number of questions from...
Date: 01/12/2006
VSTS Team Suite Edition boxed up and ready to roll
Just yesterday I moseyed down to our team admin’s office and picked up my boxed copy of Visual...
Date: 12/22/2005
Performance Profiling Parse vs. TryParse vs. ConvertTo
When programming in .Net you are presented with several different ways to extract a numerical value...
Date: 12/19/2005
Visual Studio Team System TechNotes
Looking for some good information on the Visual Studio Team System profiler or just on Team System...
Date: 12/05/2005
Why has Ian not been blogging recently...?
http://live.xbox.com/member/TheFightingFish That's why... ~Ian
Date: 11/29/2005
VSTS Public Chat
Just passing on the word: Team System MSDN Public Chat Visual Studio Team Edition for Software...
Date: 11/15/2005