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Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Dan Taylor
This blog post summarizes the investments we made to our performance profiling and diagnostic tools in Visual Studio 2015. What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub. In Visual Studio 2015, we have made the following improvements: In the remainder of this post we’ll ...

Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
Amongst the improvements we’ve made to Code Maps in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM are: The icons are now consistent with Solution Explorer and other tools The following screenshot shows a code map in Visual Studio 2015 RC. You can see that, although the nodes are decorated with icons, these are of varying sizes and some are not ...

Finding swallowed and async exceptions using IntelliTrace in VS2015

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Angelos Petropoulos
In this blog post I am going to walk you through using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 to deal with two exception-related scenarios: If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its improved UI. You can see this walkthrough as a video...

IntelliTest – One Test to rule them all

July 5, 2015 Jul 5, 2015 07/5/15
Pratap Lakshman
In traditional unit test suites, each test case represents an exemplary usage scenario, and the assertions embody the relationship between the input and output.  Verifying a few such scenarios might well be enough, but experienced developers know that bugs lurk even in well-tested code, when correct but untested inputs provoke wrong responses...

Deploying an Azure Web Site using the new build system in Visual Studio Online

June 12, 2015 Jun 12, 2015 06/12/15
Charles Sterling
I have been meaning to write a post on deploying Azure Web Sites from a build in either Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server for while when i noticed one of our star ALM MVPs, Jakob Ehn, has already done one. Republishing with his consent. Thanks Jakob!   Original post and more great ALM content can be found on Jakob&rsquo...

New course announcement: Enabling Continuous integration and continuous deployment with Visual Studio Online Build

June 11, 2015 Jun 11, 2015 06/11/15
Charles Sterling
One of the primary efforts of the ALM Development team is to provide  tooling that enables DevOps workflows. The new Build system shared by both Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online is a cornerstone to that effort. So it is great news one of the ALM MVPs, Esteban Garcia, and world class training partners, Pluralsight, have ...

Watch the Diagnostics Sessions From //Build and Ignite

June 1, 2015 Jun 1, 2015 06/1/15
Aaron Hallberg
The diagnostics team delivered a total of five talks at Microsoft’s //Build and Ignite conferences. If you were unable to view or attend them here are the links to watch them now! Note: If you are interested in watching one of the talks, all talks that share a title use the same demos and cover similar content, where the shorter talks are...