Lost Performance Explorer Window.

During the Visual Studio Team System presentation in Medellín, I had the opportunity to discuss with Freddy Angarita a problem that occurred on my machine with the Performance Explorer window in Visual Studio. Thanks to his instructions, I can now run code analysis. I share the problem and the solution here.

Problem: I cannot see the Performance Explorer window inside Visual Studio Team System; because of that, I cannot start performance analysis for my applications.

Solution: Run from the Visual Studio command line the instruction devenv /resetskippkgs (If it is a machine running Vista, you have to open this console as administrator).

Investigating a little more, what this command line does is delete all the skip VSPackage tags that have been placed in the development environment. By removing the tags, the system reloads all the VS Packages, in this particular case the Performance Analysis one (Performance Explorer)

All the out-of-the-box Visual Studio functionalities (the C# editor, for example) are implemented through VSPackages, so this same behavior and solution can apply to other Visual Studio elements such as page designers, classes, etc., and not only for Visual Studio Team System but for other versions such as Professional and Express.

I hope this is useful

Juan Carlos Peláez
MCTS

Keywords: Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio Express, Visual Studio Professional, Performance Explorer, Visual Basic, C#, Microsoft, Juan Peláez.