Jun26
Not all classes in the SharePoint API are CLS-compliant types. While using a language like C#.NET it does not matter since the .NET framework knows how to work with these classes. Working in PowerShell is a completely different story. PowerShell does not differentiate between the various cases of names of objects, properties, or methods. This can become apparent rather quickly when, for ex...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 26 Jun 2009 02:21.
Jun18
There are two editions of Visual Studio 2008 that can be used to do performance testing – Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite. When using these products, there are also two types of test platforms that can be used: Local without a Controller and a Test Rig. The difference being the use of the Visual Studio 2008 Team Test Load Agent/Contro...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Thursday, 18 Jun 2009 03:45.
Jun18
While using Visual Studio 2008 to do a load test of a SharePoint web site, I was having problems retrieving performance counters from the servers that I was trying to test. The tests were configured as local tests without a test rig. After I setup the web test and load test, the first time that I ran the test, everything was fine. I got values from the performance counters on the servers ...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Thursday, 18 Jun 2009 10:14.
Jun5
I recently created a series of SharePoint features that when activated would produce a highly customized SharePoint site. These features are highly dependant on each other so they must be activated in order or there might be problems. I also wanted to make provisioning of the sites as easy as possible for end users so that they would not have to manually activate these custom features. To a...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:11.