Hi, I would like to share a problem I found when working with the class: CultureInfo .GetCultures on ASP.NET application that has high traffic. It look like the implementation of CultureInfo.GetCultures does not appropriate written to ASP.NET or there is a bug in code that cause to a High CPU peeks (80%-100% CPU peeks). If you need to use this code on your ASP.NET application I would recommend to wrap the code inside a static object and not use the .NET CultureInfo.GetCultures. Rotem

Everyone who works with workflow designer (and if you are TFS Build Developer – you do it a lot ) encounter the problem with Workflow Designer slowness and crashes (happened to me like 20 times today ) . Today, Microsoft announce a patch for that ! This patch includes fixes to ASP.Net & Silverlight as well and other 35 issues and 6 features as you can find in KB 2468871 . Read more in Buck Hodges post . Grab it from Here .   Happy Building.

Run Unit Tests in Parallel using Visual Studio 2010 Today almost each and every machine have multiple CPU’s or a CPU with multiple cores, so why not using them in order to speed up your tests runs and run more Tests in parallel. In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft added the ability to run Tests (Only for Unit Tests) in parallel. Data Collectors cannot be enabled if using Parallel execution. You must have multi-core/CPU machine How To Enable Parallel Execution of Unit Tests 1. Create new Test Project...

I’ve just read a post of Christian Mosers listing “ Top 10 WPF Performance Tips ”. I agree with most of them, as they are general tips, but except for one: “ Load resources when needed . Even thow it's the most comfortable way to merge all resources on application level it can also cost performance by loading all resources at startup. A better approach is to load only often used resources and load the other on view level” Resources in WPF are lazy load and shared by default. If you place a resource...

שלום לכולם, יש לי שאלה לכול מומחי ה-SQL ו-DATABASE והשאלה היא: רציתי לדעת מה הגישה המקובלת והמומלצת יותר היום לעבודה עם DATABASE שאמור להיות עמוס מבחינת גישות SQL ונתונים (נגיד DB כמו של פייסבוק או אמזון). 1. האם לעבוד ב-DB שונים לכול שירות? כלומר: DB למשתמשים, DB למוצרים, DB להזמנות וכו'... ככה אין כמעט JOIN אבל יש לחבר את התוצאות מהשירותים השונים במקרה שיש צורך ב-JOIN. 2. האם בכול זאת עדיף לעבוד עם DB אחד לבצע JOIN שיכולים להיות מורכבים ורק להפריד את הנתונים ל-DB שונים לפי לוגיקה מסויימת 3...

Tech-Ed 2010 – Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 – All In One Teched Israel 2010 is going to happen next month in Eilat between the 28-30 of November. On this Teched I’ll have the pleasure to present a session about Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 In this session I’ll demonstrate how to use the following: Microsoft Test Manager – Fast Forward Automation Web Performance Testing Load Testing Coded UI Testing Why? So YOU can do Automatic and Load Testing by yourself!...

Thanks to all the attendants of the yesterday’s session. I had a lot of fun, hope you had too. Please feel free sending me questions and comments. You can find slides and demos from the session on my SkyDrive: Have fun. Yours, Vlad Share | var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};

It is still not late to register and take part in the talk. This talk is going to be one of the richest sources of information about AppFabric Caching available, so you will definitely benefit from it. For details and registration: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032460308&Culture=he-IL Here is the abstract for the talk: A vast majority of web applications use some kind of relational database to keep data. As it turns out, databases, while being robust, are the source...

Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 Couple of days ago Grant Holliday's post about new Reports pack for TFS admins to answer the following question: How long is cube processing taking? How much time elapses between processing jobs? How often do the processing jobs run? Do errors occur with when the cube is processed? Process Times: Current Processing Status This table tells you whether the warehouse is currently being processed or when it will be processed next. The Next...

Microsoft Key Note At SIGIST 2010 - Test Automation – Done Today I had the honor to participate at SIGIST 2010 conference (The third year) and be a part of Microsoft Key Note on Test Automation in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager. (Last year lecture - Sigist 2009 – Lab Management & Pictures ) I’ve showed couple of cool demos using “Fast-Forward for Manual Testing” , Rich Bugs using Data Collectors and Lab Manager solution. And I showed a short demo on how to use Eclipse IDE with...