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//BUILD/ videos now available!

Thanks for attending //BUILD/! The session video and supporting video demos are now available. These videos showcase the exciting new features and improvements in the Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit. View or download the videos here.

Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (WPT) for Windows Developer Preview
The new Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (WPT), included with the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK), makes performance issues easier to diagnose. The toolkit includes the following:

• Windows Performance Recorder (WPR) extends Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) by capturing detailed system and application behavior and resource usage either from the command line or a new graphical user interface. The previous command-line tool, Xperf, is still distributed with the toolkit for compatibility with existing scripts. For more information, see Windows Performance Recorder.
• Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) is a powerful tool used to review aspects of performance on Windows. WPA opens event trace log files and displays performance data in graphs and tables so that you can easily see where to investigate potential issues. For more information, see Windows Performance Analyzer.

MSDN subscribers can get the ADK here.

Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) v5 forum
A forum for discussions on WPT for Windows Developer Preview is now available, where you can learn and share tips and tricks about how to use the new Windows 8 performance capture and analysis tools.

Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit
The Windows Performance Toolkit is designed for analysis of a wide range of performance problems, including application start times, boot issues, deferred procedure calls and interrupt activity (DPCs and ISRs), system responsiveness issues, application resource usage, and interrupt storms.

• Building High Performing Windows Applications by using the Windows Performance Toolkit (video)
• On/Off Scenarios - Common Issues, Recommendations, and Best Practices (video)
• On/Off Scenarios - Performance Analysis and Diagnosis Overview (video)

PDC 2009 - Optimizing for Performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit - CL16
Thanks for attending PDC! We've had full house attendance at over 350 in the room this year and had a lot of really great questions from you! We hope you found the session very useful. Feel free to share your experiences on our forum at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wptk_v4/threads.

WinHEC 2008 (Los Angeles, CA, November 5-7, 2008)
The slide deck from the "Introduction to Performance Analysis using the Windows Performance Toolkit" is now available for download here. You can also browse through other exciting content from WinHEC at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/2008/pres.mspx.

Downloads

Latest version of the official Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit designed for analysis of a wide range of performance problems including application start times, boot issues, deferred procedure calls and interrupt activity (DPCs and ISRs), system responsiveness issues, application resource usage, and interrupt storms.

• Windows 7 SDK (contains WPT 4.6)