Articles by KENNETH

Announcing TraceProcessor Preview 0.1.0 Process ETW traces in .NET. Background Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a powerful trace collection system built-in to the Windows operating system. Windows has deep integration with ETW, including data on system behavior all the way down to the kernel for events like context switches, memory allocation, process create and exit, and many more. The system-wide data available from ETW makes it a good fit for end-to-end performance analysis or other questions that require looking at the interaction between by many components throughout the system. Unlike text logging, ETW provides structured events designed for automated data processing. Microsoft has built powerful tools on top of these structured events, including Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), which provides a graphical interface for visualizing and exploring the trace data captured in a ETW trace file (.etl). Inside Microsoft, we [ more… ]

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18890 available now! Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 18890 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18890 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from the developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum. For new developer feature requests, head over to our Windows Platform UserVoice. Things to note: This build works in conjunction with previously released SDKs and Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. You can install this SDK and still also continue to submit your apps that target Windows 10 build 1903 or earlier to the Microsoft Store. The Windows SDK will now formally only be supported by Visual [ more… ]