Tuesday 21 April 2015

IntelliSense's Second Cousin IntelliTrace - Strictly for Users of Visual Studio "Ultimate" Edition

Do you use IntelliTrace (TM)? (or any other "Ultimate" feature such as UML modeling?).

IntelliTrace (TM) was a feature introduced in Visual Studio 2010 "Ultimate" - it collects data while a program is executing. This collected data is stored as IntelliTrace (TM) events (these are part of the DEFAULT debugging experience in "Ultimate").

Less well known than IntelliSense but interesting nonetheless.

A word to the wise on Visual Studio versions, in the 2010 series Professional is the base case, Premium adds performance profiling, static code analysis and testing features such as user-interface test automation.

Ultimate adds IntelliTrace (TM) as well as UML modeling and an "Architecture Explorer".  (Side note - some term these product categories as the "SKU model" (SKU = Stock Keeping Unit)).

Thursday 2 April 2015

git on Windows

git can be installed on Windows so that it is accessible from the command-line, full information is available on the git website.  When installing you can select "Checkout Windows style, commit Unix-style line endings".