On a recent project I had to call Java REST services from a .NET Client. Several problems came up – ranging from authentication to hidden performance issues. I want to share my lessons learned and encourage you to share your own opinions and experiences on this topic. The Context: REST to automate analysis processes in [...]

This might be “old hat” for most of you experienced ASP.NET Developers out there – but I think it is worth another blog entry as I just ran into the following problem: Step 1: Migrated an Application from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 I worked with an ASP.NET Application originally developed on ASP.NET 1.1. We [...]

I’ve been invited to talk at the iX-Day rund um SharePoint taking place this Thursday, July 9th in Stuttgart, Germany. SharePoint – especially the performance and scalability aspects of customized SharePoint Applications – has been a hot topic for me over the past year. If you happen to be at the conference feel free to [...]

While preparing for my presentation Load and Performance Testing: How to do Transactional Root-Cause Analysis with Visual Studio Team System for Testers that I gave at the Boston .NET User Group on May 13th I came across certain load-testing topics. One was: How to randomize Input Data. If you go with Visual Studio you can [...]

I am pleased to have been re-invited to the SharePoint Technology Conference hosted in Boston from June 22nd to 24th. I will be delivering two talks about SharePoint Performance Management on wednesday, June 24th. If you attend the conference and if you want to learn more about how to make your SharePoint based Applications perform [...]

In my previous blog post I discussed that interoperability is not just about letting systems talk with each other. Having the technology to connect different platforms is only the first step. One major problem in heterogeneous systems is the lack of a common set of tools that enable you to easily find the root cause of a [...]

Thanks for all participants of the San Francisco Bay Area SharePoint User Group. Those of you who want to have the slides and the sample code please send me an email and I will send it to you.

Microsoft and Sun recently announced their Open Source Project Stonehenge at the JavaOne conference. Stonehenge is a reference implementation that shows how to bridge the two major development platforms Java and .NET using Web Services. This initiative definitely puts the spotlight on heterogeneity and the challenges that come with it. Interoperability on the platform level [...]

I’ve been invited to speak at two SharePoint User Group Meetings this week Silicon Valley SharePoint User Group on Wednesday, June 10th (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED) San Francisco SharePoint User Group on Thursday, June 11th I will be talking about most of the problems I’ve seen in the past year when working on SharePoint [...]

Microsoft recently published the first official beta build of Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio Team System for Testers has some nice improvements on their testing features. Additionally to new features – Microsoft also opened their extension points. One new interface that I am using to integrate dynaTrace into Visual Studio is the LoadTestPackageExt object and [...]