Tracking viewstate using a webtest playback add-in

  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.

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2010 is going great for me! 2009, on the other hand, was the sort of year I wouldn’t wish on anybody  – and that I wouldn’t give up for anything. The amount I learned about myself, why I do things the way I do, and what I could do about it – and what I have done about it – is directly responsible for this year going so well

Webcast about Deploying Kronos and SQL Server

Here is a webcast , about SQL Server 2008 as your choice for deploying Kronos, and there is talk about some of the technical considerations for deploying Workforce Central using SQL Server 2008. TechNet Webcast: Deploying Kronos Workforce Management Solutions Using SQL Server 2008 (Level 200)

bem legal: dicas do Bing para SEO em Silverlight

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If you’re not sure what security only crawl is, please see some of my earlier post on this subject. It’s much easier to troubleshoot security only crawls now that we have included Security Updates category within the crawl log in SharePoint 2010! For example, now I can easily spot the incremental crawl at 11:03 AM was a security only crawl:     Just wanted to point this out and provide a heads-up that some of the advanced troubleshooting techniques from the past can now be avoided.   Thanks Colin for supplying the pic