Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013

Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013

The new Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 Preview provides a unified experience for various tools available in Visual Studio. The hub also makes it easy to identify the performance and diagnostic tools that work with your project and enables you to quickly start using them to improve your application.

How to Access from Visual Studio 2013:

It can be opened by clicking on “Performance and Diagnostics” from the Debug or Analyze menu.

New and Improved Profiling Tools

In this release we have not only moved our existing profiling tools into the hub, but also added some new ones along the way! Among the various profiling targets, you will see the following tools available in Visual Studio 2013:

• JavaScript Memory. First introduced in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, this tool helps you understand memory usage and find memory leaks in JavaScript Windows Store apps. For more information, be sure to check out JavaScript memory analysis for Windows Store apps in Visual Studio 2012.
• HTML UI Responsiveness. First introduced in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, this tool helps you isolate UI responsiveness problems in JavaScript Windows Store apps by providing rich visualizations of work being done on the UI thread. For more information, be sure to check out HTML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013.
• XAML UI Responsiveness. New in Visual Studio 2013, this tool helps you understand UI responsiveness problems in C#/XAML and C++/XAML Windows Store apps by providing rich visualizations of work being done on the UI thread. For more information, be sure to check out XAML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013.
• Energy Consumption. New in Visual Studio 2013, this tool enables you to estimate your app’s energy consumption without the need for any specialized hardware. For more information, be sure to check out Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013.

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