What's New in Diagnostics Features of Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 provides enhancements to the debugger, IntelliTrace, code analysis, the profiler, and Test Impact Analysis. This topic provides information about these enhancements and links to content that provide additional information.
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Introducing IntelliTrace: Debugging with IntelliTrace, available in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, provides an enhanced picture of your application compared with traditional debuggers. Traditional debuggers show you the state of your application at the current time with limited information about events that occurred in the past. You must either infer events that occurred in the past, based on the state of your application at the current time, or restart the application to re-create past events. By using IntelliTrace, you can step out of live debugging and can navigate through the IntelliTrace recording. By doing this, you can see events that occurred in the past and the context in which they occurred. You can also return to live debugging at any time when you are done navigating the IntelliTrace recording. This reduces the number of restarts that are required to debug your application and the possibility that an error will fail to reproduce when you rerun the application. | |
Debugger Enhancements: Visual Studio 2010 provides many small enhancements that can help make you more productive when you debug issues in your application. These enhancements include breakpoint enhancements, enhanced data tips, enhancements to symbol loading, WPF debugging enhancements, improved Threads window, and more. These new features enable the following scenarios:
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Code Analysis Enhancements: You can now use code analysis rule sets to target specific issues and conditions in managed code. For example, you can use built-in rule sets to focus on correctness or security issues. And you can create custom rule sets that select the warnings that target your own code analysis priorities. New code analysis warnings target the .NET Framework 4 security model and also provide analysis of data flow within a procedure. | |
Profiling Tools Enhancements: The Visual Studio 2010 profiling tools introduce new functionality that can help you get started and then dive deeply into diagnosing performance issues.
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Introducing Test Impact Analysis: Understanding the effect of code changes on existing tests is crucial to both developers and testers.
For both developers and testers, the new Test Impact Analysis feature provides important and timely information about the effect of code changes on existing tests. Test Impact Analysis is integrated in Visual Studio Ultimate, Team Foundation Build, and Test Manager. |