In the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2015, you will see that we have completely revamped the user interface of IntelliTrace by bringing it into the Diagnostic Tools window. So far everything we have mentioned is in the FREE Community edition of Visual Studio 2015 (and of course the Professional and Enterprise editions as well). This is something that is not possible when using the Memory Usage tool without the debugger. A great example is the ability to inspect variables when viewing the heap captured by snapshots: You can control program execution and inspect variables to get much better insight into the cause of performance issues. It is not only easier to measure performance with the debugger, but the added capabilities of the debugger give you more powerful performance analysis tools. If you switch to the memory usage tab, you can take, inspect, and diff memory snapshots while your program is running or is stopped at a breakpoint: The Diagnostic Tools window records the history of all your PerfTips in the Events graph and in the events table, and also allows you to correlate execution time with the CPU and Memory Usage graphs: PerfTips show you how long your app was running when you hit breakpoints and step, all you need to do is look at the end of the current line when you are stopped in the debugger to see the elapsed time: To accomplish that goal, we added PerfTips and the Diagnostic Tools window as default debugger features available to Community, Professional, and Enterprise SKUs. Our goal with Visual Studio 2015 was to lower the bar for collecting performance data, so that everyone can measure performance with minimal effort, and without having to leave their typical workflow. Catch performance issues early using the debugger In the remainder of this post we’ll go into the details of these new and exciting features.

We’ve optimized our menu entries to accommodate all of the new changes.

We’ve added new platform support: Windows 7, Desktop apps, Universal Windows Projects (UWP), and Azure Web Apps.

We’ve added new diagnostic tools: Network Usage and Application Timeline.

IntelliTrace is now part of the Diagnostic Tools resulting in a brand new and easier-to-use experience.

The Diagnostic Tools are available while you are debugging: you can view CPU Usage, Memory Usage, take snapshots and time sections of code using PerfTips all without stopping your debug session.

In Visual Studio 2015, we have made the following improvements: In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub. This blog post summarizes the investments we made to our performance profiling and diagnostic tools in Visual Studio 2015.

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