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So far I’ve never written a blog entry that gives out philosophical advices on doing performance work. But lately I thought perhaps it’s time to write such an entry because I’ve seen enough people who looked really hard at some performance counters (often not correct ones) or some other data and asked tons of questions such as “is this allocation r...

WebDevTools is the owner of the DHTML Editing Control; a COM control which can be used in applications or web pages for WYSIWYG HTML editing and which is shipped as part of the Windows operating system.  After a long run (nine years, since IE 4.5) this control will not be shipped as part of Windows Vista. There are two flavors of the control; a sa...

Indeed what I do is very much like the job of the janitors – like the ones who clean your building, or janitors you see at a food court, or yourself when you are taking care of garbage at your house. Doubtful you say? Let me prove it to you. Finding garbage What do you do when you are having lunch with your friends at a food court and suddenly...

This is the Part 2 of a 3 part series on using sub-projects with the Web Application Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2005.  Part 1 of the series can be found here.  I apologize to folks for the delay in getting this second post out, we've been super busy the past few weeks.  This post covers two...

The test role at Microsoft and specifically the VWD team is somewhat different from a traditional test position in the software industry. Our team is responsible for redefining how professional designers, developers, academics and hobbyists design, develop and deploy web applications.   Testers on our team are basically frontline de...

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm John Dixon, one of the SDET Leads on VWD. I wanted to share some of the recent work the Venus QA team has done to make our life easier. I'll start with a little bit of history. I hope you find it interesting! ****Old School:********In our last release (VS2005) QA would get a new build and based on build verific...

The Visual Basic team has released two KB articles that provide information on hotfixes that address performance issues which may occur on large solutions and projects in VS2005.  If you are using Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2005, and you are seeing any of the symptoms I list below, I encourage you to ...

By the Community, For the Community! I'm really excited to announce a new community program on the ASP.NET website called By the Community, for the Community.  It's a system to help out everyone, and give some great community members a platform from which to show off their work.&nbs...

Over the last few months, I've seen a number of forum posts from people saying that when they choose "Create New Website", the dialog box that showed them the different types of websites they could create was completely horked.  For example, instead of showing this: it would instead show this: Often when we see bugs like this, it's very frust...

First a quick intro, since this my first post on the team blog.  My name is Omar Khan.  I'm the group program manager for the web development tools team.  I manage the program management team that helps design the web tools inside of Visual Studio. This post is one of a three part series that describes how to factor development of ...