Anith Gopal

  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.

En numerosas ocasiones escuchamos a muchos clientes y usuarios las pocas posibilidades que a veces se tienen para hacer llegar información sobre comentarios y mejoras sobre nuestras aplicaciones al Grupo de Producto de Office. Bien pues en esta ocasión os ofrecemos una posibilidad única de poder participar en una muy completa encuesta que hemos elaborado con nuestros compañeros de dicho grupo y el de Office Online. La presente encuesta ha sido diseñada para recoger aparte de una serie de datos iniciales para conocer el entorno en el cual os movéis, tanto como empresa o usuarios, vuestros usos más frecuentes tanto en aplicaciones como en características específicas, a fin de conocer el tipo de perfil y facilitar las mejoras en los áreas de las tecnologías de edición, corrección, revisión de ortografía, gramática, el uso de diccionarios, tesauros, etc

Although I didn’t include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation collection for WCF has also been updated. While you can navigate between the different framework versions for the reference documentation, some people seem to be having more trouble finding the conceptual documentation and samples, which are not as tightly linked together. Here are the starting pages for those document collections as well as a direct link to download all of the sample source code.

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++.

We are happy to share that starting April 9, 2010, Windows Azure platform AppFabric will be commercially available on a paid and fully SLA-supported basis.   In order to help you get familiarized with AppFabric billing, we released the AppFabric Billing Preview yesterday March 9. With this billing preview, you will be able to download a usage summary from the AppFabric Developer Portal , with information similar to that of the “daily usage summary” currently available to you for Windows Azure and SQL Azure. If you are already using AppFabric, we will begin charging as of April 9, 2010 at 12:00 AM GMT.