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Apr 8, 2025
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Multi-Process CPU Usage Analysis in Visual Studio

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Streamlined Performance Insights Across Processes The Visual Studio Profiler's CPU Usage tool and Instrumentation tool now supports multi-process analysis, providing a unified view of CPU activity across multiple processes. With performance graphs featuring distinct, color-coded stacked swim lanes for each process, diagnosing and optimizing CPU us...

Debugging and DiagnosticsDeveloper ProductivityPerformance Improvements
Mar 3, 2025
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Great new productivity features in Visual Studio

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

Sometimes it’s the little things in life that matter the most. In the latest version of Visual Studio, we’ve added some features and tweaks that aim to put a smile on your face and make you more productive. Here is a list of some of these, and if you want the full list, make sure to check out the release notes. Customize file encoding Developers ...

Developer Productivity
Feb 11, 2025
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available!

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. This update focuses on stability and security, along with continuous improvements for all developers using Visual Studio. Based on your feature requests, several new tools and enhancements have been added to this release. This update includes improvements for developer...

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Jan 7, 2025
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Benchmarking with Visual Studio Profiler

Nik Karpinsky
Nik Karpinsky

In Visual Studio 17.13 Preview we have released our updated BenchmarkDotNet diagnosers, allowing you to use more of the tools in the performance profiler to analyze benchmarks. With this change it is super quick to dig into CPU usage and allocations of benchmarks making the measure, change, measure cycle quick and efficient. Benchmarking a real pr...

Debugging and DiagnosticsDeveloper ProductivityVisual Studio Profiler
Dec 4, 2024
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How Inline Return Values Simplify Debugging in Visual Studio 2022

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Have you ever found yourself creating temporary variables just to inspect return values from functions? It’s a small task that can quickly become tedious, breaking your rhythm and cluttering up your code. Visual Studio 2022 introduces a smarter way to handle this with "Inline Return Values," allowing you to stay focused on coding without the extra ...

Debugging and DiagnosticsGitHub CopilotDeveloper Productivity
Dec 2, 2024
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AI-Powered Insights: Streamlining Variable Analysis with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

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Tired of spending countless hours troubleshooting errors and unexpected values in your code? Visual Studio 2022 introduces GitHub Copilot Variable Analysis. This powerful tool makes inspecting and analyzing variables from Locals, Autos, watch windows and DataTips effortless, helping you solve issues faster and cutting down on time and frustration. ...

Debugging and DiagnosticsGitHub CopilotDeveloper Productivity
Oct 2, 2024
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Discover Hidden Insights with Profiler’s External Code Decompilation

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Have you ever wondered what's happening under the hood of your .NET application? Do you want to quickly and easily identify and fix performance bottlenecks? If so, Visual Studio has the perfect tool for you: the profiler. The profiler allows you to analyze your code's performance, pinpoint hot paths, detect memory leaks, address thread contentio...

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Sep 25, 2024
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Organize Your Breakpoints like a pro

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Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of breakpoints in your Visual Studio project? Wish you could categorize and toggle them on and off with ease? The new breakpoint group feature in Visual Studio 2022 is here to transform your debugging experience. Breakpoint groups allow you to create custom collections of breakpoints and apply vari...

Debugging and DiagnosticsDeveloper ProductivityBreakpoints
Feb 23, 2024
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A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio

Jason Chlus David Li
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Game development is evolving rapidly and keeping up with the latest trends is crucial. I’m thrilled that David Li took the time to highlight all the improvements added to Visual Studio for game developers during 2023. Check out his blog here.  The Unreal Engine integrations are where my eyes jumped to first. There is now an Unreal Engine log vie...

Developer ProductivityGame DevelopmentUnreal Engine
Feb 12, 2024
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A Look Back: Visual Studio’s Profiling Tool Advancements in 2023

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In retrospect, the past year our team was on a mission to enhance Profiling tools, making them more efficient and user-friendly. We improved instrumentation and our .NET counter tool, broadened platform support, seamlessly integrated unit test profiling, and boosted overall performance. Your valuable feedback via Developer Community was crucial in ...

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