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New Profiler feature in Visual Studio

June 9, 2022 Jun 9, 2022 06/9/22

Misty Hays

Introducing the new File I/O tool We just launched a new profiling tool in Visual Studio 17.2 that helps you understand how you can optimize your File I/O operations to improve performance in your apps. If you’re trying to investigate and diagnose slow loading times, the new File IO tool can help you understand how the I/O operations ...

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...

Cross Platform Managed Memory Dump Debugging

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

Mark Downie

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

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

Mark Downie

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

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

Esteban Herrera

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

Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions

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

Andy Sterland

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

August 19, 2019 Aug 19, 2019 08/19/19

Mark Downie

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

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

Mark Downie

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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