Diagnostics

Managed Memory Dump Analyzers

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

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

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

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...

Cross Platform Managed Memory Dump Debugging

Mark Downie October 8, 2020 Oct 8, 2020 10/8/20

With the release of Visual Studio 16.8 Preview 3 you now have the ability to open and analyze managed dumps collected on Linux and use the best in class debugging tools available in Visual Studio.

Disassembly improvements for optimized managed debugging

Mark Downie September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

If you are focused on squeezing out the last bits of performance for your .NET service or application, you might choose to take advantage of JIT compiler optimizations. However, debugging optimized code can be a challenge. In this blog I’ll show you how the Disassembly Window can help you debug optimized code.

Database Profiling with Visual Studio

Esteban Herrera July 27, 2020 Jul 27, 2020 07/27/20

Examine when database queries were executed and measure how long the take using Visual Studio's Performance Profiler.

Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions

Andy Sterland April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20

Ever had a bug in an async method that caused an exception? Been frustrated that the debugger doesn't show you where that exception happened? Or been frustrated when looking at an exception that has an inner exception, but the debugger doesn't easily show you where that exception was from? Starting from the Visual Studio 2019 16.5 release, the...

Find solutions faster by analyzing crash dumps in Visual Studio

Mark Downie August 19, 2019 Aug 19, 2019 08/19/19

When unexpected crashes occur in your managed application you are often left with little evidence of the issue; capturing and analyzing memory dumps may be your last best option. Thankfully Visual Studio is a great tool for analyzing your apps memory dumps! In this post we show you how easy it can be to resolve the issue using Visual Studio.

Resolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with the Snapshot Debugger

Mark Downie July 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019 07/15/19

Snapshot Debugger is built for production so you can set Snappoints and Logpoints in code, like debugger breakpoints and tracepoints. However, when a Snappoint is hit in an AKS Linux Docker container, a snapshot is dynamically created without stopping the process. You are then able to attach to these snapshots using Visual Studio.

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