Debugging and Diagnostics

DataTable Visualizer Improvements

September 15, 2022 Sep 15, 2022 09/15/22

Harshada Hole

Your favorite DataTable visualizer has now got a makeover with all new improvements coming in 17.4 Preview 2. The DataTable visualizers will now support sorting, filtering, exporting, and theming like IEnumerable visualizer. The DataTable Visualizer allows you to view the contents of a DataTable, DataSet, DataView, or ...

Choosing a .NET Memory Profiler in Visual Studio – part 1

August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22

Clément Habinshuti

Summary Visual Studio provides two great tools for analyzing and diagnosing memory issues in .NET applications: the Memory Usage profiler and .NET Object Allocation Tracking tool. While both tools are useful, it may not be obvious for new user to know which one to use when. This article aims to clarify what each tool is good for and how to ...

IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer Improvements

July 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 07/14/22

Harshada Hole

In Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 3, we added a few highly requested improvements in IEnumerable visualizer like Filtering, Theming, and CSV export to enhance the visualizer experience further. The .NET IEnumerable debugger visualizer is one of our most loved debugging features in recent times. This was a highly requested feature by developers ...

View .NET collections with the new IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer

April 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022 04/21/22

Harshada Hole

While debugging .NET code, inspecting a large and complex collection object can be tedious and difficult. Hence, starting from Visual Studio 17.2. Preview 2, we are introducing a new Visualizer, which will help you view IEnumerable objects such as Arrays, List, etc. in a customized tabular view. The IEnumerable visualizer will display ...

New Improved Attach to Process Dialog Experience

September 7, 2021 Sep 7, 2021 09/7/21

Harshada Hole

With Visual Studio 2022, we promise to bring new tooling to improve the inner loop productivity and debugging experience. We have added command-line details, app pool details, parent/child process tree view, and the Select running window from the desktop option in the attach to process dialog.

Debugging External Sources with Visual Studio

August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

Harshada Hole

Have you ever needed to debug and step into a code of dependent NuGet or .NET libraries that do not build as part of your solution? Today, debugging through them is not so easy as debugging your projects that are part of your solution. Starting with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3, we are adding a new "External Sources" node in the Solution Explo

Debug code with force run to cursor

July 15, 2021 Jul 15, 2021 07/15/21

Harshada Hole

Starting Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 you can use "Force Run To Cursor". It is like "Run To Cursor," but you can keep your breakpoints and the debugger will skip over them until it reaches the line of code with the cursor. It will also skip any of the first-chance exceptions break conditions that may occur.

Managed Memory Dump Analyzers

April 16, 2021 Apr 16, 2021 04/16/21

Mark Downie

With the release of Visual Studio 2019 16.9 you can try out our new managed memory dump analyzers to help you root cause the issues that plague your applications in production. We're excited for you to give it a try!

New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET

March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Sagar Shetty

With the release of version 16.9 of Visual Studio, instrumentation profiling in Visual Studio just got better. Introducing our new dynamic instrumentation tool. This tool shows the exact number of times your functions are called and is faster than our previous static instrumentation tool. It also supports .NET Core instrumentation without...

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 is Available Today

January 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021 01/20/21

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 releases today. Highlights of this release include additional functionality in C++, .NET Productivity, XAML Tools, and Accessibility. Check out the new features today!

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