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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Reporting Performance Issues with PerfWatson

Corrector — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:33:04 GMT

@Sitsch, WPF isn't the problem, except in making raster fonts no longer eligible which was a horrible move on MS's part. The problem is the new Intellisense. That's what slows everything to a crawl as you actually write code, whether it's C++, C# or XAML for WPF/Silverlight.

The other problem is the new partially C++0x compliant compiler (RAM gobbler edition), which gobbles RAM like there's no tomorrow when templates are involved (e.g., boost variant anyone?). When you run multiple parallel compilers (say eight of them), which these days seems to be a good idea given the standard quad cpu (8 with hyperthreading) hosts people use for development and you better have lots of RAM (where lots >> {i.e., much greater} 4 GB). I am typing this on a host with 12 GB of RAM as we speak, which is about the bare minimum necessary for C++ software development these days.

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Re: Eric Lippert - Have you noticed a performance hit in .NET?

Corrector — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:52:54 GMT

And when you tune the algorithmic hotspots in your code, by rewriting them using unmanaged code, how will you handle the managed/unmanaged transitions that you will create, if they become the next bottleneck?

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Re: Talking Architects with Jason Zander

Corrector — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:00:54 GMT

The audio drops out on the streaming version from 19:42 to 26:01 where it just restarts repeating and the video cuts out... Someone needs to fix this video.

Thanks

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Re: Progression of the Iconic Background

Corrector — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:12:44 GMT

Yep, within 5 mins changed to a solid background as well. Yes, the new background is cool, but the only usable background is a relatively dark solid one, e.g., 13/104/107 (RGB)

Sorry

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Re: The Great PDC Laptop Give-Away of 2009

Corrector — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:03:36 GMT

the FT07 video on the PDC09 web site is broken (404) and the contact us on the bottom of the page doesn't work, either. Someone needs to fix both of these items.

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Re: The Great PDC Laptop Give-Away of 2009

Corrector — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:33:11 GMT

How many laptops can be purchased for the price of PDC09 admission, I think maybe 3 or 4 of the quality of the laptop given out?

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Re: Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Schedule

Corrector — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:33:24 GMT

Will the PDC sessions be available via Channel 9 for viewing, for those of us unable to attend the PDC (just like they were for PDC '08)?

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Re: E2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud - Inside Garbage Collection

Corrector — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:11:04 GMT

Why is this video so noisy and of such poor quality, even in WMV HD (1,072,801,969 bytes worth). I mean for over a gig of WMV3+audio data, I was expecting the view quality to be superb. Instead there is so much video noise, that it looks like someone compressed it with the worst video encoder settings available, while still maintaining a very large file size. Is the camera at fault? Other videos presented on channel 9 by the same videographer were decent, what happened here? Did the "good camera" break? Was the "video engineer" on vacation and this video got re-encoded by a programmer? What gives?

This was a very important interview video with a very important person and I wish more effort was put into a quality presentation.

Mike

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Re: Countdown to PDC09: Big Brains Descend Upon PDC and Teach Us How to Dream

Corrector — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:39:33 GMT

The video is 9 minutes and 9 seconds long. The "10 minute timer" gets started at around 14 seconds in and rings a second or two before the the end. I don't know why, but I feel shortchanged!

Mike

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Re: Rico Mariani: Inside Visual Studio Beta 2 - Performance and Reliability

Corrector — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:10 GMT

OK, Rico, here's a question for you:

Who's brilliant idea was it to remove support for raster fonts from the VS 2010 editor? They've been supported from the very beginning of Visual C++. How can you compare a font like Consolas or Courier New to a raster font like Terminal for visibility, legibility, and maximum lines per screen, especially at small font sizes (e.g., 9 points and 6 points)? Try comparing these fonts in VS 2008 and tell me your opinion.

Just curious,

Michael Goldshteyn

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Re: 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements

Corrector — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:16:07 GMT

aL_, the answer to your question is at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181(VS.85).aspx"> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181(VS.85).aspx

That article describes how you can collect local dumps for yourself to troubleshoot, instead of sending dumps of your custom programs to Microsoft, never to be heard from again. I should also mention that this is effectively the replacement for Dr. Watson on Vista and Windows 7 (and of course their Server counterparts).

Corrector

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Re: Graphics improvements in WPF 4

Corrector — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:04:12 GMT

I get an "Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application." dialog box when trying to run the samples. I have VS2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework Beta 2 installed. Do these samples require a post-Beta 2 .NET, so we can't view them?

Thanks

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Re: Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 - MFC and Windows 7

Corrector — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:02:12 GMT

Shh! Don't give it away...

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Re: Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Redux

Corrector — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:39:23 GMT

Mark, here's one for you: I downloaded ZoomIt, but it doesn't draw the cool arrow heads at the end of the line like it did when you used it on this video. Are you holding features back on us ?

Thanks

Edit: I should have played wit it more, it's Ctrl-Shift-Click to get straight lines and arrows. Great tool!

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Re: Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Redux

Corrector — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:31:06 GMT

LOL! Charles, Mark actually made you speechless at many points during the interview, including the very end. He's a real hard core technical dude to talk to, isn't he and I see you really respect him as do we all!

Thanks for the interview...

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Re: Countdown to PDC09: Da Cloud! Da Cloud!

Corrector — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:30:02 GMT

You're wearing microphones that actually work and whoever did the soundwork on this video actually knew what they were doing for a change (or read up on how to do it properly since the last video ). Congrats, I can finally hear you!

On a negative note, it's not nice to cut the guy off mid sentence, I mean going a few seconds over the buzzer with some closing words is OK - you guys don't have to take the time limit THAT literaly. So, some more constructive (I hope) criticism for you...

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Re: Countdown to PDC09: The Client Track Unplugged

Corrector — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:18:31 GMT

I wonder if it's possible to get a heart attack or at least clogged arteries just by looking at this week's Hard Hat challenge?

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Re: Countdown to PDC09: The Client Track Unplugged

Corrector — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:43:51 GMT

Why is the audio so quiet and distorted during various points? Come on guys either put microphones on or get a decent microphone to record the session. I have to turn the volume up to ungodly levels just to be able to make out what you are saying. Then, after I do that, there's clipping going on during some of what you are saying...

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Re: The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Parallel Patterns Library

Corrector — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:04:46 GMT

What this example showed is that those same "subgroup of senior specialists" will be responsible for writing the bodies of the parallel for statements, to make sure that no race conditions sneak in. So, in the end, does this really solve the problem or just make it easy for people who don't know how to write concurrent code think that it is now easy to do so (with parallel_for)?

Also, how will the PPL and all of the mumbo-jumbo (i.e., Concurrency Runtime) it sits on handle parellizing code in multiple concurrent processes? Or, are we supposed to, from now on, run only a single "parallelized" process on a multi-core host?

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Re: Lambda Expressions in C++

Corrector — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:42:20 GMT

By the way, prime numbers start with 2, not 3!

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