August 2004 - Posts

Code Complete
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 Read More...
Posted 28 August 04 02:08 by vank | 0 Comments   
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Suite Frameworks
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 Read More...
Posted 25 August 04 10:52 by vank | 0 Comments   
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An unexpected side effect of storing short directory paths
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 Read More...
Posted 23 August 04 11:29 by vank | 4 Comments   
Code Folder References
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? Read More...
Posted 23 August 04 10:32 by vank | 0 Comments   
Cardiac Performance Testing
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. Read More...
Posted 21 August 04 10:13 by vank | 2 Comments   
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Other things that have gotten slower by design
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 Read More...
Posted 19 August 04 09:04 by vank | 1 Comments   
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What's Different About the VWD Build System?
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. Read More...
Posted 18 August 04 02:30 by vank | 1 Comments   
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Digital Diabetes
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 Read More...
Posted 17 August 04 09:18 by vank | 2 Comments   
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Visual Web Developer (Whidbey) Performance
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 Read More...
Posted 17 August 04 09:59 by vank | 13 Comments   
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