I am trying to use the memory profiler in VS 2010 Premium. Does it have the ability to take a snapshot of what is actually holding a reference to the objects rather than just where the objects are allocated?
thanks,
Stuart
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My system currently has Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition installed. I'm thinking of installing Visual Studio 2013 Professional Edition. I referred to this link which seemed to be a duplicate of my question. But there is no discussion there about memory consumptions.
My question is will running 3 versions of VS on the same machine cause too much of memory consumption? I'm having 8 GB of RAM and an i5 processor.
I just want to be sure before I install. Any suggestions or answers will be welcome.
Thank you. :)
You can have as many versions installed as you want without impact (other than disk space). On my previous machine (i5 proc and 8 gigs of RAM) I had VS2005, VS2008, VS2010 and VS2012 and I didn't notice an increase in memory consumption of individual instances.
Of course, if you run multiple instances at the same time memory consumption will rise, but that is still true if you run multiple instances of the same version of Visual studio. I regularly run two or three instances with fairly complicated solutions (20-50 projects) at the same time on 8 gigs of ram without slowdowns or issues.
I have VS 2010 at work, but at home I was thinking of just installing the express version since it might be less resource intensive?
Yes, it is much less resource intensive.
It also has many less features.
I suggest reading What is “missing” in the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions? before making a decision.
I want to know what is the main difference between vs2008 and vs2010..
means I want to know what is the new functionality added in vs2010.
Well, there's always Microsoft's page about the new features of VS 2010. But you can get a more distilled user perspective describing new features that specific developers really like. There are a number of blog posts about it as well.
If you plan to code a lot with threads, definitely go with 2010. It has great advancements on the profiler and debugger. The profiler especially it's awesome.