Performance Tuning in Visual Studio Team System

Darren Neimke has posted up a good post on how to use the performance analysis features of Visual Studio Team System. Darren walks us through how to setup the performance session and drill down on performance problems in a simple example.

Perhaps the key take away is that before you should even attempt to optimise your code you should take some measurements so that you can determine whether you have been successful or not after the optimisation has been made.

I’ve seen a lot of people “optimise” their code only for them to discover that they have made it slower.