Diagnostic Tools and IntelliTrace

Visual Studio 2015 introduces a new excellent debugging tool called Diagnostic Tools, which enables developers to understand how an application is consuming memory and CPU during its life cycle and to investigate debugger events. The Diagnostic Tools includes a Timeline area where you can see where time is spent during the application life cycle; it also has another area where you can investigate debugger events, take memory snapshots at a given time, and see CPU usage. Diagnostic Tools also integrates IntelliTrace, the historical debugger that you know from previous editions of Visual Studio Ultimate (now called Enterprise). In version 2015, IntelliTrace functionalities are no longer offered in a separated ...

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