UI Performance Analysis tool for WPF apps Announced

Microsoft announced a new UI Performance Analysis tool for WPF apps in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5.

 

New Timeline tool is a replacement for the existing XAML UI Responsiveness tool available in Visual Studio 2013. The tool can be used for WPF (.NET 4.0 and above) and Windows Store 8.1 applications running on Windows 8.1 or later.

 

Customers expect applications to load fast and this new timeline tool will help to achieve that with semantically-rich, scenario centric view of your applications’ resource consumption.

 

Open the Performance and Diagnostics hub from the Debug -> Start Diagnostic Tools Without Debugging (ALT+F2) menu. Select the Timeline tool and click Start (You can also run the CPU Usage tool alongside the Timeline tool). This launches the application in the profiler. Once you exercise the scenario that you’d like to investigate, you can stop the profiling session by clicking on the Stop Collection link, which starts the analysis of the collected performance data.

 

 

 

Report can be analyzed for optimization opportunities. 

 

Detailed information about application optimization using the tool is available here >>