This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions. Almost a year ago to the day - 11/7/2005 to be precise - was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005. That also marked the debut of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer community. ...
This Monday we shipped Beta2 of the ASP.NET AJAX framework – formerly known as “Atlas”. You can visit the ASP.NET AJAX website or Scott Guthrie’s blog article for details. The bits can be downloaded from here.
We have made sure that the already shipped version of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer...
!address is a very powerful debugger command. It shows you exactly what your VM space looks like. If you already got the output from the !sos.eeheap -gc command (refer to this article for usage on sos), for example:
0:003> !eeheap -gcNumber of GC Heaps: 1generation 0 starts at 0x01245078generation 1 starts at 0x0124100cgeneration 2 starts ...
We have a new MSDN article out in the November issue that talks about investigating managed memory issues.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx?loc=en
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Oh, and it's also in 6 other languages (German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese and Chinese) ...
Last week, a new set of videos comparing Visual Studio 2005 with Macromedia Dreamweaver8 became available. You can view these videos here. This series shows how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to build, debug and deploy web sites more effortlessly than Dreamweaver8.The free Visual Web Developer Express features most of the...
Defining “hang” is a good place to start.
When people say “hang” they could mean all sorts of things. When I say “hang” I mean the process is not making progress – the threads in the process are either blocked (eg. deadlocked, or not scheduled because of threads from other processes) or executing code (madly) but not doing...
Hey Web Developers -- My name is Bradley Millington and I am a Program Manager on the WebTools team. Lately I've been looking at opportunities for future versions of Visual Studio to better integrate with Windows Vista and IIS 7.0. In the meantime, however, you can use Visual Studio 2005 to start developing on...
So far I’ve never written a blog entry that gives out philosophical advices on doing performance work. But lately I thought perhaps it’s time to write such an entry because I’ve seen enough people who looked really hard at some performance counters (often not correct ones) or some other data and asked tons of questions such as “is this...
WebDevTools is the owner of the DHTML Editing Control; a COM control which can be used in applications or web pages for WYSIWYG HTML editing and which is shipped as part of the Windows operating system. After a long run (nine years, since IE 4.5) this control will not be shipped as part of Windows Vista.
There are two flavors of the ...
Indeed what I do is very much like the job of the janitors – like the ones who clean your building, or janitors you see at a food court, or yourself when you are taking care of garbage at your house. Doubtful you say? Let me prove it to you.
Finding garbage
What do you do when you are having lunch with your friends at a food court and ...