Web Load Testing Brownbag

There are many options available for testing and loading a web application. Two popular options are from Microsoft and Apache.
Follow Along
Demo files: download
Remote Desktop to: ECS500 (use your UOECS login information)
Test PHP Application: http://shoki/gallery/ (“admin”/”gallery”)
Test ASP.NET Application: http://shoki/wiki/ (“admin”/”screwturn”)
Microsoft
Visual Studio, Team Suite and Test editions contain enterprise-grade testing features.
Resources
Introduction to Web and Load Testing from [...]

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Microsoft Business Intelligence Strategy Update

If you’re already a Sharepoint licensee this looks to be a good opportunity. Thanks to a recent .NET Rocks podcast I learned about some compelling features of Microsoft’s product, and that they’re really disrupting the market and other players.
Microsoft is removing the barriers for customers who want to deploy a complete Business Intelligence solution, leveraging [...]

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ADO.NET Data Services Viewer Tool

Haven’t given this a try yet but I definitely plan to soon.
I build this tool to help me build ADO.NET Data Services URL query ( for example http://e4d.com/Courses.svc/Courses?$orderby=Date/ )
and to see the result. this is first version, please send feedback…
Key Features:
1. URL IntelliSense
2. URL Tooltip
3. Data Grid View
4. XML Atom View
5. Data Service Metadata View
via [...]

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Like most applications, a database plays a critical role in what I’m working on. Fortunately, two higher-end versions of Visual Studio are supposed to provide a Microsoft security blanket for developing a database, managing and tracking changes to a database, and deploying those changes. (Among other things)
http://www.vitalygorn.com/blog/post/2008/01/Handling-Database-easily-with-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx
Unfortunately, Microsoft left the security blanket for getting these [...]

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