Performance Profiler

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 ...

Case Study: Double performance in under 30 minutes

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Nik Karpinsky

Summary Recently I was converting some decompression code to C# so that we could use it cross platform and to aid in our team’s effort to migrate our new analysis process to .NET 6. After I got the initial implementation done with the simplest, cleanest code that I could, I proceeded to profile it to make sure I wasn’t doing anything ...

Case Study: Using Visual Studio Profiler to reduce memory allocations in the Windows Terminal console host startup path

October 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 10/11/21

Austin Lamb

Setting The Stage Around the holidays of 2020 it was a bit quieter, and I decided it might be a great time to go investigate how the Visual Studio profiling tools worked. I have been a long-time user of the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), which is a great tool for doing systems-level performance analysis. It is, however, quite complex and...

Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 and v16.11 Preview 1 are Available Today!

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Justin Johnson

We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 GA and v16.11 preview 1. This release makes our theme of developer productivity and convenience Generally Available to Visual Studio users! We’ve added C++20 features, improved Git integration, improved profiling tools, and a host of features that accelerate productivity.