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Microsoft released the next version of it’s Development IDE Visual Studio 2010. In fact – VS2010 is more than just an IDE to write applications. It also became a testing solution with the built-in Web-, Load- and functional testing capabilities. In a recent blog post and in a recent MSDN Webinar I demonstrated the capabilities [...]

I recently blogged about the Load Testing Capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the new extension interfaces that we from dynaTrace use to extend VS2010 Web- and Load-Testing to go beyond .NET and standard load-testing reports: VS2010 Load Testing for Distributed and Heterogeneous Applications powered by dynaTrace. Next week I am going to do a [...]

Visual Studio 2010 is almost here – Microsoft just released the first Release Candidate which looks pretty solid and good. Microsoft added new interfaces for performance management solutions like dynaTrace to extend the Web- and Load-Testing capabilities (check out Ed Glas’s blog on what’s in VSTS Load Testing) to go beyond .NET environments and deeper [...]

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 code [...]

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 [...]

In my previous blog entry I wrote about how to extend Visual Studio in order to get transactional tracing for the applications that I develop in my Visual Studio Solution. This could be a console application, a WinForms or WPF Rich Client Application, an ASP.NET Web Application or a SharePoint Extension (WebPart, Custom List, …)
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Visual Studio is the number one development environment for Microsoft technologies and that is especially true for .NET based applications. When developing an application – building it on top of frameworks like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WPF or SharePoint – it is always great to have the ability to debug through your code in order to find out what [...]