Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
    • Introduction to Application Center Test
    • Understanding ACT Projects, Users, Tests, and Connections
    • Using the ACT Standalone Application
    • Walking Through the ACT Script
    • Understanding the ACT Test Results
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test

Some of the biggest questions when you develop new applications for the Internet are "How will it perform?" and "Will I need more hardware to support this application?" There have always been stress-testing tools available for Web-based applications, but they're expensive and difficult to implement. With Visual Studio .NET, there is a built-in tool, Application Center Test, that stress-tests your Web applications and gives you the information you need to make sure that the hardware and software you're using are appropriate for the job. Today you learn

• What Application Center Test is
• How to add Application Center Test projects to your Visual Studio .NET solutions
• How to understand Application Center Test results

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