My MSDN Team System Webcasts
I'll be presenting two TechEd related webcasts for MSDN on May 29 and 30th. Here are the abstracts (I'll post the links as soon as they are available):
Architecting Your Smart Client Applications using Team Edition for Software Architects
When you are architecting Service Oriented applications (such as Smart Clients), it's sometimes easy to conceptualize how the entire application will work in your head. But what if you have to document the application model? What if you are working with an extremely complex environment? Team Edition for Software Architects provides a suite of tools to help you visually model an application, validate your application against a network and hardware infrastructure, then deploy it. This session will walk you through the step by step process of modeling a Smart Client application.
Effective Web & Load Testing in Team System
As a web developer, all you need to know is how to effectively write ASP.NET code - right? But will that code hold up to a barrage of 10,000 users? How long does it take to load up on a 56k connection? Will it display correctly in all browsers? What about your SESSIONSTATE? In this session, you'll learn how to use the web and load testing features of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. First, we'll delve into creating and configuring web tests, including recording sessions, parameterizing the web server, adding extraction rules, validation rules and context parameters, and analyzing the final test results. You'll also find out how to integrate data sources in your tests and automating the tests using Team System's APIs. Next, we will jump into load testing including creating profiles, executing a load test and making sense of the results.