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Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure

July 29, 2014 Jul 29, 2014 07/29/14
Rick_Anderson
Successful web app dev teams generally consider performance a requirement from the beginning,  not an afterthought. Performance should be considered in all phases of a project, from design and into production, including updates to the app. That's not to say you should try to optimize code before you've measured it, you really don't know...

Request for Real-World Web Applications

July 12, 2010 Jul 12, 2010 07/12/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team.  We’re looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, ...

General Performance Improvements in VS2010 since Beta2

April 30, 2010 Apr 30, 2010 04/30/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas. Customers were experiencing general slowness in a lot of features that was hindering them with daily operations. We ...

Hotfix for Visual Studio hang when opening Web project from a remote site

March 6, 2009 Mar 6, 2009 03/6/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson). The reason is that sometimes XML editor (which is used when you edit web.config) may begin walking remote Web site file structure looking for ...

Workaround for a slow closing of Web projects

November 21, 2008 Nov 21, 2008 11/21/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A few users reported that with Web projects located on a remote machine closing project or solution may hang Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for several minutes. We fould that the issue may be caused by VS logging component that collects information on product usage. This is an opt-in feature activated in Help | ...

Dev 10 Performance Improvements Planning

October 23, 2008 Oct 23, 2008 10/23/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools team is planning to spend cycles in Dev10 to improve the performance of Web Development scenarios. In that effort, we have identified the following areas where we should maintain parity with VS 2008 SP1/ improve for Dev 10. We came up with the list based on our team’s tests/ regular usage/ customer feedback/ forum ...

Troubleshooting “Visual Studio 2008 Design view hangs” issues

October 3, 2008 Oct 3, 2008 10/3/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Over the last few months we've collected information on various issues related to design view not working in Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Here is list of known issues and possible solutions:Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component fails to install.1. Pre-release Office 2007 components are installed. Most ...

Anti-virus programs can affect VS build performance

June 16, 2008 Jun 16, 2008 06/16/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus programs affect VS build? Please take a look at the following snippet from ScottGu's blog...

Public alias to report performance issues with VWD 2008

April 24, 2008 Apr 24, 2008 04/24/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a public alias to report all performance related concerns about the product. The alias is ...