What:MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint PerformanceAttend this webcast to learn one dozen easy-to-implement performance tips for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. We also describe several ways to proactively improve the user experience and squeeze more performance out of a SharePoint Server farm. Anyone currently designing a SharePoint ......
Why Silverlight? What is Silverlight? Version 3 of Microsoft Silverlight is on the horizon and there are still some misconceptions regarding why Silverlight exists. Before answering the “Why Silverlight” question we need to understand what Silverlight is. Silverlight, is often compared to Flash because of its vector graphics and animation capabilities. However, Silverlight also provides access to a subset of .NET Framework Base Classes. So this means that complete applications can be developed using ......
Tulsa Developers User Group | Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio 2008 (Review) Corey Roth presented tonight on automated web testing with Visual Studio 2008 at the Tulsa Developers User Group. Visual Studio can be used to record an action such as logging into a web application. Alternatively, users can inspect screen values for specific results. The test would pass if the expect value is present and fail if the value is missing. Visual Studio must be installed to execute the tests. A tests ......
I just received notification that I am now a three time Microsoft ASP.NET MVP. Dear Dennis Bottjer, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. Also in this email: About your MVP Award Gift How to access http://www.mvpaward.com to get your technical subscription benefits Your MVP Identification Number MVP Award Program Code ......
My friend and coworker at SpringPoint David McCoullough is blogging. David is a talent ASP.NET developer who has attacked SharePoint development with a ferocious passion. Welcome to the BlogoSphere David! Technorati Tags: SharePoint,David McCoullough,SpringPoint,ASP... ......
The .NET Framework allows developers to write managed code. The term managed refers to how memory is handled by a computer system. For example, C/C++ code is commonly known as unmanaged because developers must allocate and de-allocate memory. In contrast, the .NET Framework provide a mechanism known as the Garbage Collector (GC) to de-allocate or collect object no longer in use. I have found it particularly helpful to consider SharePoint a very large ASP.NET Application. If you can visualize SharePoint ......
On Sunday April 1, 2007 I received the following letter from Microsoft. Needless to say I was so glad they weren't kidding. [;)]
Windows Services are similar to UNIX daemons. They are applications that start when Windows boots and continue running until Windows shuts down. A Windows Service might be used to implement a timer that continually polls a source looking for new data. When new data is found an import process might be kicked off. .NET has made developing Windows Services much easier than past methods. As mentioned above a Windows Service is an application and as such requires installation. In the remainder of thi
I'm sure, like me, you've seen plenty of production web.config files with debug=true set. Most senior ASP.NET developers will recognize that debug should be set to false for the production build. However, this small detail is often over looked. So what does this setting really do and does it have any significant impact on a production site? When debug is set to true, the following occurs: Pages are not batch compiled. Pages do not time out. When a problem occurs, such as a problem with a Web service ......
Last year we deployed a new underwriting system. Since the Fall of 2006 we have been steadily releasing updates to the system. Supporting the large user-base of this application has required us to improve our debugging and performance monitor skills. For example, we have become huge fans of unit testing and made strides to better understand memory management and profiling. To protect the health of the application we needed to understand the recycling of application pools / worker processes. Thoughts ......