Defining “hang” is a good place to start.
When people say “hang” they could mean all sorts of things. When I say “hang” I mean the process is not making progress – the threads in the process are either blocked (eg. deadlocked, or not scheduled because of threads from other processes) or executing code (madly) but not doing...
Hey Web Developers -- My name is Bradley Millington and I am a Program Manager on the WebTools team. Lately I've been looking at opportunities for future versions of Visual Studio to better integrate with Windows Vista and IIS 7.0. In the meantime, however, you can use Visual Studio 2005 to start developing on...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...