Background : All SPsite and SPweb objects make use of unmanaged code and needs to be disposed off explicitly in the finally method or by making use of the 'using' statement. Below is the sample that shows appropriate use of sharepoint object model. ...

Applies to · Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System · Performance Testing · Web Testing Summary This article explains how to create a web test plug-in to automate scenarios where the numbers of form post parameters for a web request are dynamic in nature...

Before you start debugging make sure you have the symbols path set appropriately. Below link shows you how to configure symbol path http://blogs.msdn.com/johan/archive/2007/11/13/getting-started-with-windbg-part-i.aspx Once you have the right dump...

Background : SQL server 2005 introduces a new isolation level called the row versioning with Read Committed Snapshot. This setting is useful in case where there are reader-writer conflicts only. With this setting on, SQL server maintains versions of each...

Background : When assemblies are authenticode signed, the signed assemblies need to be verified by the certificate authority. When CA certificate is not present on the same machine the assemblies require network or internet access. If the signed assemblies...

Situation : The web application hosted on a server in India is performing well for end users in India. But the users in Europe are having a tough time accessing the web pages due to extremely slow response times. How would you reduce the risk considering...

For those guys who havent heard about Loop unrolling here is a brief description about it. Loop unrolling is a way of optimizing the code by manipulating the iteration variable in the body of the loop thus reducing the number of checks each time the loop...

Lets start off with a simple, yet quite useful article on Timing Managed code . I will be using this in my future articles to test performance of certain pieces of code. A lot of sites mention the use of WIN32 functions QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency...