Anith Gopal

During Summit Deb and I followed around MVPs with our video camera, cornered them in beautiful locations around Campus, and asked them to tell us about their experience in the MVP program. I’ve shared some of that video with you already, but I put together this montage that I think highlights the relationship between MVPs and Microsoft really well

  One of the coolest features I think we’ve added in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to add your own tabs into the webtest playback view.  Extending the user interface in this way allows you to do data analysis and have it pop up right in front of you in whatever format you want.  No more exporting to excel or whatever your favorite analysis tool is, just compile everything you one in one place and voila! That being said, I have been told that it can be difficult to grok at first glance.  So, I wanted to post a sort of ‘how to’ in order to get one of these working.  A colleague of mine suggested that I could use this forum to demonstrate how to keep track of something that affects the performance of many users’ websites.  Namely, Viewstate.   So, below is a step by step instruction on how to create a webtest playback tab which keeps track of the viewstate size for each request.   Step 1:  Create the add-in project Visual Studio Add-ins have their own special type of project, you can find it under “Other project types / Extensibility”.   I’ve named mine “ViewstateAddin”.   Step 2:  Walk through the create add-in wizard When the wizard launches, you’ll be add a “welcome” screen.  Click next to move to page 1.

Late last year we started the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance project … probably the worst time as December is a very inactive month with everyone enjoying a well deserved break and January  being a very active month to re-start initiatives, thus having little time and bandwidth for these kind of projects. Nevertheless the team has ensured that the guidance project is picking up momentum and recently released a DRAFT of the core scenarios to the Rangers for comment and are hard at work on a BETA release for the core scenarios and a DRAFT release for the extensibility and Hands-on-lab (HOL) scenarios.

We’ve posted an update to our sample pack at http://code.msdn.com/concrtextras for the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010. There’s a lot of good stuff from the team here including demos, concurrent data structures and additional parallel algorithms and helper functions. New Demos: There are 3 new demos in the sample pack: The parallel plug-in for excel we blogged about earlier is now available in the sample pack it’s a great example of how to use the PPL for financial applications and how to build an excel plug-in in C++.

No passado dia 10 de Fevereiro, durante o evento Road to SharePoint , foi apresentada oficialmente a Comunidade Portuguesa de SharePoint .