Free C# / .NET Profiler with Silverlight support

World is still lacking a good free .NET / C# / VB.NET / F# Profiler. There are plenty of overpriced tools (some very useful, but expensive). I need simple profiler for one of my free / hobby projects, so I do not want to pay a premium. First I tried to download open source project …

Context switch can be 3 times slower in virtual environment such as VMware ESX

Tsuna analyzes how match time it takes to make a context switch. All analyzed chips are Multi-core Intel CPUs. OS / scheduler used – standard Linux Kernel. Results: depends on what we call a context switch (theoretical / real world) and what we measure is: 1000 ns – 4500 ns (up to 45000 ns – …

VS2010: Project not selected to build for this solution configuration

Along with everyone we are moving towards 64-bit platforms. After adding solution platform x64 under Visual Studio 2010 Configuration Manager, everything seemed ok. When building, all builds was successful except x64 Release. Here is an output: 1>—— Skipped Build: Project: abc, Configuration: Release x64 —— 1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration 2>—— …