Debugging threads with the Parallel Stacks window

The Parallel Stacks window is very helpful for debugging multithreaded applications. Mark and Ram show how to use the Threads view to see stack information for all threads in an application and how to use it to find out why threads are deadlocked.

Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
2:15 - Review demo app with thread deadlock
5:30 - See a visual representation of threads in the app
11:10 - Finding the cause of the deadlock
15:50 - Show external code and methods (rather than threads)
17:30 - Save threads view as a graphic
19:10 - Wrap up

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[agaace]

Love this and other recent big features shipped in VS. Been using VS for 2 decades now & love how VS has managed to not only stay relevant but to continue to still lead the pack over the years. Love that you guys keep asking for feedback & actually listen to us, users, regarding what features we want to see shipped. My favorite development tool of all time, 2 decades in & counting!

[tech-with-inder]

Cool and very helpful features. Thank you, team!

[esprl]

Great work being done on the parallel stack window!

[aspr]

Bit of a shot in the dark with this question. I'm pretty new to Visual Studios. Would there be any reason this option is missing from VS 2022? Every guide has it under Debug -> Windows. But mine does not show it no matter what I do. Is this just for the paid version of VS?

[williamliu]

Great demo! Is the source code shared?

[weisenlin]

parallel stack window support c/c++ debug in the future ??

[MirceaGheoace]

Please add a link to the app code used in this video.

[manojmaheshwari]

can we save call stack info in a flat file, once the code execution is over?

[robertcohn]

Does parallel stacks support C++ debugging?

[travel.tales.official]

I wish Visual Studio was supported on Mac as well for C, OpenMP so I can use this to debug my code. That's a real deal breaker. And they are retiring Visual Studio for Mac. Should have instead added all these features there instead.

[travel.tales.official]

I am a Mac User. But for this feature alone, I might switch to Windows. Microsoft is taking over everything. Damnnn....