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Usability improvements to the Timing Capture Metrics View

Steven Pratschner April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

The 2104.20 release of PIX on Windows includes several usability improvements to the Metrics View in Timing Captures. These usability improvements make it easier to manage the set of metrics that are currently graphed. Metrics analysis is also improved through the ability to customize the minimum and maximum values for the y-axis for each...

PIX on Windows

Conversation about crossgen2

Richard Lander April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

Conversation with .NET engineers about crossgen2.

.NET Blog

Windows Package Manager v0.3 Preview

Demitrius Nelon April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

We have been hard at work building new experimental features for the Windows Package Manager. We have just released the Windows Package Manager v0.3 Preview. I would like to share the first major feature to exit experimental status. I also have the privilege of announcing support for Group Policy. What's New Introducing Import I have been ...

Windows Command Line

New CPU Sampling Profiler C++ Source Code View

Steven Pratschner April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

Starting with the 2104.20 release of PIX on Windows, the Sampling Profiler that is built into Timing Captures includes a C++ source code view. The source view uses coloring to attribute the collected CPU samples with source lines, thereby identifying the hot spots within a function. The source view is available when viewing Sampled ...

PIX on Windows

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Ensuring code quality with CI/CD

Cesar Valiente April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

Hello Android developers, One of the best ways for us to help you enhance your apps is with samples, and it’s important that our samples are high quality and work as intended. Building dual-screen libraries and samples As you may already know, specifically for Android development (through its SDK and using Kotlin/Java...

Surface Duo Blog

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Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11.0.11 & 16.0.1 (EA) Available

gadams April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

The Java at Microsoft Team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11.0.11 & 16.0.1 (EA for Windows AArch64 / ARM64).

Java at Microsoft

How to measure the energy consumption of your apps

Sara Bergman April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

The second principle of Sustainable Software Engineering is to build energy efficient applications. The very first step in that direction is to measure the energy cost of your application. This post will answer the question "what is the best way to measure the energy consumption of your apps?".

Sustainable Software

C++ coroutines: Improving cold-start coroutines which complete synchronously

Raymond Chen April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

Avoiding stack build-up.

The Old New Thing

Borrowing a built-in PowerShell command to create a temporary folder

Sean Kearney April 21, 2021 Apr 21, 2021 04/21/21

Q: Hey I have a question for you. It seems silly and I know I could probably put something together with Get-Random. But can you think of another way to create a temporary folder with a random name in PowerShell? Ideally, I'd like it to be in a user's own "Temporary Folder" is possible. A: We sure can! If Doctor Scripto was sitting here ...