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

February 6, 2014 Feb 6, 2014 02/6/14
Andrew Chan - MSFT
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

February 6, 2014 Feb 6, 2014 02/6/14
Avneep Dhanju - MSFT
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 ...

Investigating Memory Leaks in Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio 2013

December 20, 2013 Dec 20, 2013 12/20/13
Steve Carroll msft
One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to analyze managed memory issues. Recently, Azure Web Sites added support to programmatically get mini-dumps and “diagsession” files that have heap information from Azure Web Sites in production. In this walkthrough, I’ll show you how to combine these two new features to ...

How to debug Release Management components

December 12, 2013 Dec 12, 2013 12/12/13
Roopesh Nair
  Enable logs on Microsoft Deployment Agent: The first and most easy way to debug why an action/component is failing is to open the logs available through the deployment step of your release within Release Management (RM) client. To do this, open your release, access the View Log section, click on the Details button of the ...

Just My Code for ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013

November 25, 2013 Nov 25, 2013 11/25/13
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
Posting this on behalf of Patrick Nelson who is a developer on the Visual Studio Debugger team, and also thanks to Rob Paveza for his help with both of our post regarding JavaScript Just My Code Do you develop web apps? Do you hate when the debugger keeps stopping in code you don’t care about? Are you tired of accidently stepping into ...

System Center Performance Alerts and IntelliTrace

October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13
Larry Guger
Previously we told you about the initial integration between System Center Operations Manager and Visual Studio IntelliTrace that supports exporting exception data from System Center to Visual Studio using IntelliTrace. We are pleased to announce with the release of System Center 2012 R2 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 that performance data ...

.NET Remote Symbol Loading Changes in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
Andrew Chan - MSFT
In this blog post, we will cover the changes we have made in the way we load symbols in the remote debugging experience for .NET languages. This applies to remote debugging for .NET languages and other languages will load symbols locally. Visual Studio 2010 experience In Visual Studio 2010, we would look for symbols deployed onto the remote ...