Load test allow to understand how many users at once your server and application can process at once. Visual studio 2013 allows you to imitate user action and as robots, so and with human-like behavior.
My post yesterday was about how to get to results of load test. Now I realized that I still hadn't posted about how to create web test and load test in Visual Studio 2013. In Visual Studio 2013 Professional it's rather easy to do – you don't need to install add-ons or plugins, everything is already included.
When you execute load test in Visual Studio, you may want to see previous results or to move results to another machine if you need to make report. I had to spend some time to look for the buttons to manage results of Load test in Visual Studio 2013.
Usage "Application configuration file" is very good in creating simple applications. It's very good to store in it values like path, string for database connection or something like this. I use it for a long time. But not so long ago I have noticed that Studio highlights string where configuration file used: (read more...)
Using class System.Environment you can get paths of special Windows folders such as Program Files, My Documents and others. The list of available values is stored in enum object Environment.SpecialFolder (Fugure 1).
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As a result of experiments with WPF controls I got the error in Visual Studio 2013. I started to look for records in block "using", but it was all right there. (read more...)
Generic handlers have an extension .ASHX. It's a good solution to render documents or images for user on server-side after user requests, not web page. Generic Handlers solution (.ashx files) are not directly supported by Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint projects. But there's a little trick for this.
When I tried to add html to data for my GridView control, I could only see html code. I could see "<span class="myhtmlclass">my text</span> from SQL request</span>. But I wanted to wrap my content with <span> tags. (read more...)
Once when I started to work over the project which used about 30 SharePoint Lists and their data should be displayed on some interfaces, I decided to use Sandboxed solution. When I started Visual studio and began to write code, everything was fine. No restarting IIS after deploying, I could easily press F5 and not to wait for restarting application pool in 1 or 2 minutes. (read more...)
With coming up Visual studio 2012 finally I decided to try it. But first I need to uninstall Visual Studio 2010. When I entered Control Panel -> Programs and Features I saw a lot of products that have been installed with VS 2010. It was hard to think about uninstalling each element manually. (read more...)
