Glavs Blog
The dotDude of .Net
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VSTS 2008, Web Tests and using Fiddler
I have been doing some performance and load testing of a web application I have been working on lately. Most of my previous experience was with the 2005 flavour of VSTS and I was keen to play with the 2008 version to see what improvements have been made. This web application is quite heavy in terms of Javascript and AJAX feature usage.
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Profiling your AJAX Applications using AjaxView
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Visual Studio 2008 Team Test Issues
I have had ongoing problems getting various tests to work using my installation of VS2008 Team Suite. Initially, I had a problem running unit tests (see here), then sometime after that, I had other niggling issues with code coverage and had to copy assemblies from Private folders to public folders and vice versa.
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New feeds for the ASP.NET Podcast
Wally has created some new feeds for the ASP.NET Podcast There is still the same general feed. It will have all shows and all of the variations of the shows in it. These include WMV, MP4/M4V, MP3, and whatever else one can throw in it. The rest of the feeds are:
If you have any problems, let me know ASAP!
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Latest Podcasts
Wally has put up some new podcasts around using Google maps and virtual earth with ASP.NET AJAX.
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WiX - Painful at best
So I finally got WiX to create an installer for me after many hours of poor documentation, obscure errors and bizarre angle bracket syntax.
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Remix in Oz
Remix, is heading downunder and registrations are now open. You can register here.This event is especially cool for the many people who did not get a chance to attend the actual Mix event in the United States (which is many of us).
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MCTS in WCF
So a little while ago, I mentioned that I did a WCF beta exam for a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist. Its been a long time since I did that and I had kinda forgotten about it, but today I received the good news that I am now a MCTS in WCF!
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Reducing page load times with UpdatePanels and timers
I have demo'ed this technique before and talked about it various times, but I recently used this on another engagement which really helped alleviate some of the initial page load times and size.
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ASP.NET MVC and IE8 WebActivities
One of the great things in readify is the ability to do Professional Development at scheduled intervals to keep up to speed with the latest industry technologies and advancements. My latest foray into this (amongst other things) has been looking at the ASP.NET MVC framework and Internet Explorer 8 WebActivities. Both of these technologies are quite cool and I wanted a way to learn about them both and link them in some way where I could learn about them at the same time.