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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

Analyzing your app's performance


Given the wide variety of devices that your UWP app can run on, it is important to track performance to ensure you are not being wasteful. Users appreciate improved battery life, and a responsive app is always appreciated by users. VS2015 has several app performance and diagnostic tools available that can help you measure and review its performance to ensure it is as efficient as needed.

The Diagnostic Tools menu provides the following tools:

  • Application Timeline: See where your app spends most of its time.

  • CPU Sampling: Analyze which of the functions being used by your app are using the most CPU time.

  • CPU Usage: Examine where the CPU is spending its time. Helpful when the CPU is the limiting factor.

  • GPU Usage: Review and monitor GPU usage. Helpful when the GPU is the limiting factor.

  • Memory Usage: Used to help find memory leaks, and examine how your app is using memory.

  • Network: Provides for the monitoring of all network traffic used by your app.

  • Energy Consumption...