Tag : Performance

How we use your PerfWatson data to identify Unresponsive areas

Visual Studio Blog August 24, 2011 Aug 24, 2011 08/24/11

At the end of April, we released a telemetry system to monitor and report the performance issues that our customers face during their everyday use of the product. To start off, I would like to thank everyone who installed Visual Studio PerfWatson! These reports have provided valuable insight into where you are encountering issues, and have ...

Using PerfWatson to report performance issues to Microsoft

Visual Studio Blog May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011 05/2/11

By Selma IkizWould you like Visual Studio 2010 to be even faster? Would you like any performance issue you see to be reported automatically without any hassle? Well now you can, with the new Visual Studio PerfWatson extension! Install this extension and help us deliver a faster Visual Studio experience.We’re constantly working to ...

Add References Faster with the new Add Reference Dialog in the Productivity Power Tools

Visual Studio Blog June 21, 2010 Jun 21, 2010 06/21/10

Two weeks ago, we launched the Productivity Power Tools at TechEd North America and the response has been great with over 37000 downloads so far! Many of you also may have noticed that an updated version of the Power Tools was released last week. This update fixed an issue where the extension update check would fail on machines ...

Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010

Visual Studio Blog March 7, 2010 Mar 7, 2010 03/7/10

A great way to get fast builds on a multiprocessor computer is to take advantage of as much parallelism in your build as possible. If you have C++ projects, there’s two different kinds of parallelism you can configure. What are the dials I can set? Project-level parallel build, which is controlled by MSBuild, is set at the solution level in...

MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary

Visual Studio Blog March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10

Introduction When we were developing the current version of MSBuild, we spent a lot of time analyzing builds to determine where our performance issues lay. The standard logging, even on diagnostic verbosity and with the performance summary enabled (/clp:PerformanceSummary=true on the MSBuild command line) doesn’t give us the kind of ...

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning

Visual Studio Blog March 1, 2010 Mar 1, 2010 03/1/10

This post, the second in a series of articles on Visual Studio 2010’s use of WPF, covers tips and techniques for optimizing performance of WPF applications, and also several areas where we needed to tune Visual Studio 2010 in order to squeeze the best out of WPF. The first post in the series covered the motivation for selecting WPF and ...

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