What's New in Profiling Tools

For information about everything that’s new in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 debugging and diagnostics, see Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Release Notes.

For information about everything that’s new in Visual Studio 2015 debugging and diagnostics, see Visual Studio 2015 Release Notes.

What's New in Update 1

Starting in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, you can see a per-function breakdown of CPU usage without leaving the debugger. For more information, see Profile Your CPU in the Debugger in Visual Studio 2015.

The Diagnostic Tools window has added search and filter options to the Events tab. For more information, see Debugger-integrated profiling and Searching and filtering the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window.

Diagnostics with debugging UI and hotkey changes

You can now run diagnostic tools while debugging with the new Diagnostic Tools window. The window appears automatically, but you can also open it with the new menu item Show Diagnostic Tools (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F2).

Diagnostics without debugging UI and hotkey changes

To run diagnostics without debugging, go to Debug / Start Diagnostics tools Without Debugging or Debug / Profiler / Performance Profiler.... In Visual Studio 2013, this was found in Analyze / Performance and Diagnostics or Debug / Performance and Diagnostics.

The Performance Explorer can now be found in Debug / Profiler / Performance Explorer. In Visual Studio 2013 it was found in Analyze / Profiler.

The keyboard shortcut for the Debug / Stop Collection command (which applies when running Diagnostics Tools Without Debugging) has been changed from CTRL +ALT+F2 in Visual Studio 2013 to CTRL+SHIFT+F2 in Visual Studio 2015.

Windows Phone Application Analysis Tools are available from the Debug / Profiler / Windows Phone Application Analysis Tools (or ALT+F1).

See Also

Profiling Tools