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Jump to SQL with IntelliTrace

In Visual Studio 2013, you can use IntelliTrace to view Microsoft Monitoring Agent data collected from a web application. This includes performance details in IntelliTrace which provides a great way to get back to your code to investigate performance issues that occurred on a production server. But what if the performance issue has something ...

.NET Memory Analysis: Object Inspection

In Visual Studio 2013, we introduced a way to analyze .NET Memory with Visual Studio. Now in the Update 2, we’ve added a new feature to inspect values of objects and instances to improve your diagnostic capabilities. You can follow along using the same code and dumps from the SampleLeak App we had in the previous walkthrough. If you are ...

Triggering Prefetch for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

Windows 8.1 introduced a method for Windows Store App developers to pre-register content with the Windows API to cache resources to be used by your apps before your app has been launched. This was to address the issue where your application loads slowly on startup while it waits to pull down the latest information. You can read more about ...

JSON Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2013

We are proud to announce the addition of JSON Visualizer to Visual Studio debugger in the Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013. JavaScript Object Notation or JSON is a popular format for transmitting data between server and client applications. The new debugger string visualizer displays JSON encoded strings in a treeview control and allows ...

Run your Coded UI tests against Chrome using the Selenium cross-browser plugin

Had somebody recently asking about running Coded UI Tests against Chrome and thought i would walk through this process: 1. Down load the Cross-browser plugin for Coded UI Test that uses Selenium to run tests against Chrome and Firefox from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=267598 (image) 3. Record a Coded UI test in IE...