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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Visualizing concurrency


The Concurrency Visualizer is another tool that was added in Visual Studio 2010 to assist with multithreaded code and, just like the other features of Visual Studio related to threading in Visual Studio 2012, it too has been the subject of a number of improvements. Starting with VS2013, it has been pulled out of the default installation, but is available on the Visual Studio Gallery.

In this recipe, we'll take a look at these improvements, and see how you can better understand what is happening inside your application when it runs.

Getting ready

You will need to use VS2015 or one of the premium editions for this recipe. Download and install the Concurrency Visualizer from the Visual Studio Gallery available at https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a6c24ce9-beec-4545-9261-293061436ee9. Once installed, reopen Visual Studio, and create a new C# console application named Concurrency.

Tip

This recipe is based on VS2015, but the VS2013 extension remains available at...