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Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13
Tim Varcak (MSFT)
Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to you for debugging, but there is such a thing as “...

Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13
Andy Lewis
By Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin Woodward Today we announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. In this post, we'll walk through the new experiences. Get set up: Get the free service, and then you can use it with any Git client tools you want, including Visual Studio. To use the ...

VS2012 Update 2 Brings Symbol Improvements to Profiler and IntelliTrace

January 30, 2013 Jan 30, 2013 01/30/13
Dmitri Leonov
You will recall that VS2012 Update 1 brought a bunch of symbol loading improvements for your debugging scenarios, as documented in our previous two blog posts You’ll be happy to hear that with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we’ve taken these symbol related improvements one step further and applied them to more diagnostics scenarios. ...

More on Symbol Improvements in VS2012 Update 1

January 29, 2013 Jan 29, 2013 01/29/13
Dmitri Leonov
Hi, my name is Dmitri Leonov and I am an engineer on the VS debugger team. A couple of months ago with the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, we shipped debugger improvements some of which were related to symbol and source loading as described in our previous blog post: “Debugger Source Symbol Improvements to Visual Studio 2012”. In this blog ...

Creating NGEN PDBs for Profiling Reports

December 10, 2012 Dec 10, 2012 12/10/12
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
Update: Visual Studio 2013 will generate PDBs automatically when using the CPU Sampling or the CPU Usage tool in the Performance and Diagnostics hub. See this post for more details! When profiling managed applications on Windows 8 any samples in an NGEN’d module will appear in the report as [NI module name] instead of showing the function ...

Set Local Workspaces as Default when Upgrading to TFS 2012

October 5, 2012 Oct 5, 2012 10/5/12
Ed Blankenship
I was reminded yesterday by a customer about something in the upgrade process that I thought was a helpful reminder for all the TFS administrators.  If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Team Foundation Server to the recently released Team Foundation Server 2012, you’ll want to make sure you add one more step to your post-upgrade ...

Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer

August 14, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 08/14/12
Charles Sterling
One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to show just those files that are open or those with pending changes…Take for instance the solution below are any of these files open? do any of them have a pending change? (image) (in this graphic the answer is no there aren’t any pending changes – Visual Studio does give ...