Your Azure Web Role and Full IIS – Culture Changes

Tweet On Azure SDK v1.3 onwards, your web role can enjoy the benefits full IIS capabilities.  It means that your application has now fully controlled by IIS 7.x.  Prior to v1.3, your web role was hosted on “Hosted Web Core” (HWC – hmmm, another acronym), a feature introduced in IIS 7.0.  HWC can be seen [...]

WCAT – Simple Performance Test Tool for your .NET web app

Tweet WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool) is a tiny but excellent tool from Microsoft to perform load test your web application on IIS.  This tool enables you to do performance analysis on various scenarios of your web application.  All “perfmon” performance counters (like processor time, private bytes usage,  disk queue length,  total bytes sent or [...]