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If you’re having problems opening dotTrace Timeline snapshots in 2017.3.2, then you’ll like what we have in store for you today. We’re about to publish a new bugfix update for the whole ReSharper Ultimate family – please welcome ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3.3. The only thing we’ve fixed is this very…

Although dotTrace 2016.2 mainly focuses on performance and bug fixes, it also gets one easy-to-miss yet important new feature, which has to do with how dotTrace Timeline Viewer shows recursive calls. Recursive call stacks can be deep and difficult to analyze. Before 2016.2, Timeline Viewer showed…

If you've used dotTrace integrated in Visual Studio before 2016.1, you probably noticed its main drawback compared to its standalone counterpart. It lacked the fully functional Threads diagram. The only ability to select threads was to use the Threads filter that had no way of selecting specific tim…

With each new release, dotTrace deepens its integration with ReSharper and Visual Studio. In doing this, we aim to lower the entry barrier and make profiling easier to use on a daily basis, by moving profiling closer to code. dotTrace 10 has come the farthest in this regard, as this release integrat…

When filtering large amounts of data, using a PLINQ instead of a sequential LINQ can provide significant performance boosts. Still, optimal parallelization is quite a complex task that depends on a variety of factors, such as the number of CPU cores, the nature of input data, and others. In some cas…

In our announcement post for dotTrace 6, we introduced a new profiling method: Timeline profiling. Let's explore what it is, how it can help us and how it compares to other profiling methods like sampling, tracing and line-by-line profiling. We'll also have a look at the Timeline Viewer and see h…