After an unexpectedly long process, I'm finally code complete on the Beta 2 VWD performance suites. We identified our performance needs a couple of months ago, set our goals early in August, and now we've finally got the infrastructure in place to monitor...

It's been a busy week of writing test cases. We have so many test suite frameworks I can't believe it. Our checkin suites are written against one framework (but other teams use other frameworks.) Our QA tests use another framework, and the perf test cases...

This is a bit off the topic, too, but I'm running a time consuming process on two other machines right now... I run a web server in my basement on DSL. Over the weekend I decided to finally upgrade the 80 GB hard disk that had been spinning practically...

I got email that I got feedback from Karl, but I don't see where it ever showed up on the Blog. He says: Ok, this is a little off topic, but how the heck do you reference things in the Code folder such as HttpModules, HttpHandlers and ConfigurationHandlers...

I intended to post yesterday, but just before lunch my chest started hurting. Then my left shoulder. Then my left arm. Hmmm... There's a hospital right around the corner, so I asked my boss, Brad Bartz, to drive me over so I could have it checked out...

Another feature of Visual Web Developer which is certain to seem slower than VS 2002 or 2003 is the opening of "miscellaneous files." These are files which (should) sport Intellisense but are not part of a web or a project. In earlier versions of VS these...

There have already been several posts about build being slower in VWD than in Visual Studio 2003. This is true. With Visual Studio 7.0 and 2003 there was a huge gulf between the SDK version of examples, starter kits, etc., and the Visual Studio versions...

I've posted an article on a metaphor for working set bloat; Digital Diabetes . It's not intended to be dark humor; the point is that methods for successfully managing diabetes may be transferable to managing applications with out-of-control working sets...

So how does an application like Visual Web Developer wind up with a working set like 150 megabytes? I've got an unusual perspective on this problem... About a year ago I was diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes. You have to learn and change to live with...

Hello! I've been a dev at Microsoft for eight years now, and have been working on Visual Studio for the last five or six of them. Recently I've changed roles. I've always worked on the web development part of Visual Studio (from Visual InterDev through...