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New CodedUI course from Pluralsight
One of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, has been spending a ton of time writing CodeUI Tests. Thankfully Marcel decided to take this hard earned knowledge and convert it into a class on best practices for Implementing Coded UI testing. Session information below: This course is targeted at Testers and Developers that want to get started with CodedUI to automate their tests for different types of applications, like WPF, Windows, Xaml based Store apps and of course Web Applications (HTML5 and Java script based). It also includes more advanced topics for building maintainable automation frameworks ...
IntelliTrace MVC Navigation
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability and performance data for web applications and to review the data using IntelliTrace. For Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, Update 2, we have added the ability to easily navigate to Actions and Controllers for Model View Controller (MVC) web sites. Let’s examine that experience in this blog post. Summary Page For this example, assume that I have collected data using the Microsoft Monitoring Agent for my MVC application. I open up the resulting IntelliTrace file in Visual Studio, open the associated solution and on the summary page I can see so...
Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers
The ALM Rangers have been involved with a bunch of recent Visual Studio 2013 readiness content to help people get up to speed. 1. The Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 . Big thanks to Michael Fourie, we have been able to action the backlog of community feedback for recent versions and package as part of the v1.2 eBook update 2. Lab Management Guide … v3 update, which features an interesting lab for Lab Management Standard Environment using Azure IaaS. 3. There is a great collection of Visual Studio 2013 getting started videos now available in FIFTEEN different languages de...
Combining Tools in the Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013
We have been hard at work on the Visual Studio Diagnostics team building on the Performance and Diagnostics hub. If you pick up Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can try out the features shown in this blog post. We have some great tools in the hub, and as many of you know, performance problems can often be caused by a combination of issues. That is why in this update we have enabled you to run performance tools together for faster and more effective performance analysis (which was always our plan). We have also added a new CPU Usage tool which can be run by itself or combined with other tools in the hub, and help...
UI Enhancements for IntelliTrace with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
As announced previously on this blog, with Visual Studio 2013 RTM, we also released the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) which can produce .itrace files for issues with applications in production. This includes exception information, but also performance event violations. In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we continue to improve this experience by providing better visualization and analysis for this MMA scenario. This blog post focuses on two of these: performance event grouping (for when the data is sourced from MMA Standalone), and performance details hot path (for MMA data from Standalone, System Center, or AppI...
Jump to SQL with IntelliTrace
In Visual Studio 2013, you can use IntelliTrace to view Microsoft Monitoring Agent data collected from a web application. This includes performance details in IntelliTrace which provides a great way to get back to your code to investigate performance issues that occurred on a production server. But what if the performance issue has something to do with the SQL database rather than the application code? The SQL database can be a common source of performance issues. To make these investigations easier in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 we’ve added the ability to use the SQL tools built into Visual Studio to help diagno...
.NET Memory Analysis: Object Inspection
In Visual Studio 2013, we introduced a way to analyze .NET Memory with Visual Studio. Now in the Update 2, we’ve added a new feature to inspect values of objects and instances to improve your diagnostic capabilities. You can follow along using the same code and dumps from the SampleLeak App we had in the previous walkthrough. If you are using Managed GCDumps in DiagSession files from Application Insights for Azure (like from this blog post), you will not have heap to inspect Instances and Values. This feature requires dumps with heap to have the information required for object inspection. Instance View While o...
Triggering Prefetch for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Windows 8.1 introduced a method for Windows Store App developers to pre-register content with the Windows API to cache resources to be used by your apps before your app has been launched. This was to address the issue where your application loads slowly on startup while it waits to pull down the latest information. You can read more about ContentPrefetcher on MSDN. Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 adds a way to manually trigger Prefetch from the Debug menu. Normally, the Windows system will cache your resources based off of an internal heuristic determined by how often your app has been run. During development, howev...
JSON Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2013
We are proud to announce the addition of JSON Visualizer to Visual Studio debugger in the Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013. JavaScript Object Notation or JSON is a popular format for transmitting data between server and client applications. The new debugger string visualizer displays JSON encoded strings in a treeview control and allows meaningful user interaction like search and highlight, copy key value pairs and copy path. Getting to the JSON Visualizer The new JSON visualizer will appear alongside other string visualizers currently available in Visual Studio. These visualizers are accessible through the vari...