Be sure to read Jonathan Kehayias’ 31 day series on extended events
If you have not seen it already, Jonathan Kehayias is writing a 31 day series on extended events in celebration of the public release of Denali CTP1.
Queue names for WAS hosted WCF service
On WCF forums, I have noticed a common issue that developers face when hosting their WCF service in WAS. The issue is that the service does not get activated. Often, the reason is that the queue name does not match the service endpoint name.
Welcome to PTC Windchill on SQL Server
Welcome to PTC Windchill on SQL Server—your source for content about running PTC Windchill 9.1 on Microsoft SQL Server.
The Test Management API – Part 2: Creating & Modifying Test Plans
In the previous Getting Started post for this series I covered the basics of creating a connection to the server and getting an instance of ITestManagementTeamProject which is at the core of just about everything you may want to do with the Test Management objects.
How to customize test initialization and logging
Junfeng Dai has written an article about customizing Spec Explorer for using NUnit as the test execution engine instead of VSTT a few month ago. The same general approach can be used for simpler scenarios, for example to add custom test initialization code or test logging, which I would like to explain here.
Team coding dojo 9
This time we decided to go back to the basics. Simple straight forward TDD using a really simple problem; FizzBuzz . Or we actually did a variant of it where I presented only one requirement at a time; Create a program that writes numbers from 1 to 100 using a special printer class
WAS hosting on Windows 7
IIS 7 allows isolation of web application pools from each other by providing the ability to run application pools as separate identities. The identity of an application pool is the name of the service account under which the application pool’s worker process runs. Running an application pool under an account that has high-level user rights is a serious security risk.
Back to Basics: Memory leaks in managed systems
Someone contacted me over my blog about his managed application where the working set goes on increasing and ultimately leads to out of memory. In the email at one point he states that he is using .NET and hence there should surely be no leaks .
Why does COM require output pointers to be initialized even on failure?
One of the rules of COM is that if a parameter is marked as an output pointer, then you have to initialize the thing it points to, even if your function failed and you have nothing to return. For example, we saw the problems that can occur if you forget to set the output pointer to NULL in the IUnknown::QueryInterface method
Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday wishes to you all
On this Christmas day, I want to extend to all of you the wish of a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and safe holiday season! Whether you are home or traveling, with friends, family, or other, may your day be filled with happiness and joy for you and yours. Like this? Share it with others: Happy holidays & Merry Christmas, Eric Ligman – Follow me on TWITTER and RSS Global Partner Experience Lead Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights Bookmark on: MSDN , TechNet , and Expression Technorati Tags: Merry Christmas , holidays , happy , friends , family , Eric Ligman del.icio.us Tags: Merry Christmas , holidays , happy , friends , family , Eric Ligman
Whoa there, logging on awful fast now are we?
Occasionally, a customer will run into a problem that manifests itself only when Autologon is enabled.
How To: Identify Memory Leaks In An Unmanaged Application
Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team.
