Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools [best] ✅

You could write conditional property groups using intrinsic functions:

Identify memory leaks in legacy Windows Forms apps. The Concurrency Visualizer (unique to VS2010/2012) showed thread contention and lock waits in a timeline view. 1.3. Static Code Analysis (FxCop integrated) Previously a separate tool, FxCop 10.0 ran inside the IDE as "Code Analysis." Rules were organized into rule sets (e.g., "Microsoft Security Rules").

<PropertyGroup Condition="$(OS) == 'Windows_NT'"> <Platform>Win32</Platform> </PropertyGroup> The VS2010 Profiler supported both sampling and instrumentation. It could attach to running processes—unusual for the time.