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How CPU Sampling Works

April 28, 2016 Apr 28, 2016 04/28/16
Nikhil Joglekar
In this blog post, I’ll cover some of the basics of CPU Sampling, the method the Visual Studio profiler uses to capture CPU performance data in your applications. If you’re interested in performance profiling, we welcome any feedback you have and encourage you to help us build better performance tooling! What is sampling? In a software ...

Viewing Your Work Items in IntelliJ and Android Studio

April 27, 2016 Apr 27, 2016 04/27/16
leantk
To build upon the work item functionality we added to our Team Services plugin a few sprints back, we have now created a Work Items tab that allows you to view the work items that are assigned to you. In this release, you are able to: This functionality allows you to easily switch between working in the IDE and keeping ...

Pull request build policies for high quality code

April 21, 2016 Apr 21, 2016 04/21/16
Matthew Mitrik (MS)
Branch policies are a great way to keep your code quality high, but strict build gates can sometimes introduce too much friction into the developer inner-loop.  To developers working with pull request build policies, this will sound familiar:  You have a PR that's been approved and is ready to merge - but right before you're ready to click ...

Git Experience Futures (April 2016)

April 14, 2016 Apr 14, 2016 04/14/16
Jeremy Epling
Some exciting new features are coming to the Git experience over the next few months. In January, I wrote about upcoming features and many of them are available now, but a few have taken longer than we anticipated. This post isn’t a comprehensive list of the Git enhancements we’re making, but it outlines the direction we’re headed. ...

New and updated DevLabs extensions in the Visual Studio Team Services Marketplace

April 6, 2016 Apr 6, 2016 04/6/16
Willy-P. Schaub
Microsoft DevLabs is an outlet for experiments from Microsoft, experiments that represent some of the latest ideas around developer tools. Solutions in this category are designed for broad usage, and you are encouraged to use and provide feedback on them; however, these extensions are not supported nor are any commitments made as to their ...

Using the New Exception Helper in Visual Studio 2017

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Aaron Hallberg
Dealing with exceptions is a common developer problem no matter your technology or level of expertise. It can be a frustrating experience figuring out why exceptions are causing problems in your code. When you are debugging an exception in Visual Studio, we want to lessen that frustration by providing you with relevant exception information to...

Break on Exceptions Thrown only from Specific Modules in Visual Studio 2017

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Aaron Hallberg
In Visual Studio 2015 we introduced the new Exception Settings window which provides you a quick way to configure the debugger to break when exceptions are thrown. As part of that window revamp, we heard that simply filtering by exception type is not always good enough, you need finer grained control over when the debugger breaks on thrown ...

What’s new in Git for Windows 2.8?

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Johannes Schindelin
Download Git for Windows from its home page. Authentication is now a breeze More and more Git hosting sites support multi-factor authentication or security tokens. With the inclusion of the Git Credential Manager, Git for Windows now offers a user-friendly way to support such authentication methods. Git for Windows closely follows Git ...