Travis Lingenfelder

Travis is a senior consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, but is passionate about all things relating to technology. Travis is a MCTS for SharePoint Server 2007, application development and configuration.
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Jun26

Using non-CLS compliant types in PowerShell

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.
3 Comments | Categories: PowerShell, SharePoint

 
Jun18

Step-by-Step: Configure Performance Testing using Visual Studio 2008

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.
1 Comment | Categories: Testing, Visual Studio

 
Jun18

Performance Counters Timeouts and Load Testing with Visual Studio 2008

  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.
8 Comments | Categories: Visual Studio, Testing

 
Jun5

Feature Chaining: Activation Dependencies and Feature Stapling

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.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint, Development