Nearly everyone reading this is using a machine with multiple cores. With a basic laptop containing a dual core CPU and your average desktop with a four core CPU, we have processing power our computing ancestors could only dream about. Most of us developers Read More...

While some teams solve their performance problems by throwing bigger hardware at the problem, many of us really do care about creating fast code. Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer Edition and above has had a great profiler that I've used to solve many Read More...

Code Analysis is one of those great tools that people don't run nearly enough. I have screamed repeatedly, " Never do anything at run time you can do at compile time. " The best time to catch the Design Guidelines , security, and performance violations Read More...

After getting a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I was dying to see the amazing IntelliTrace feature. You know IntelliTrace as Historical Debugging, but consider HD as the code name. No matter what the marketing people call it, IntelliTrace is Read More...

While I was hoping that VS 2010 would just install itself as soon as I downloaded the bits, they haven't quite gotten that feature working just yet. I guess the team had to leave themselves something to do in the next version. I grabbed the new Ultimate Read More...

Go grab it and let the fun begin. See the Beta 2 home page to see what's new and how to get the bits. Read More...