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What?  Bob mentioning something about Development?  Relax, I haven't switched teams and wont be but this is a pretty cool feature i found and have been using.  To be honest this will come in a lot more handy once we get to RTM and we are looking at performance (its not something we look at in this early stage of the Beta Testing). 

So what is this and how do we work with it.   This tool reminds me alot of what Eric Shupps put out through BinaryWave with a tool called Sonar.  This tool is now being sold through IDERA and knowing Shupps and using this product in the past I can tell you its solid.  But it appears Microsoft incorporated something similar in 2010.  This is a tool that will give you

• A breakdown of the request/response cycle with timings for each operation.
• A breakdown of the response times for each database query that the rendering process triggers.
• A breakdown of the load times for each Web Part on the page.

There are two methods to initialize this tool to work on your sites.  You can do this with your handy old stsadm.exe or with PowerShell.

Stsadm.exe (either set your path statement to read in the Bin Directory or navigate to c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\14\bin)

enter the following command

stsadm –o setproperty –pn developer-dashboard –pv OnDemand

In PowerShell

(Get-SPFarm).PerformanceMonitor.DeveloperDashboardLevel = "OnDemand"

The results will show you the following little icon on the top right corner of your page

Clicking on the icon circled with either display or hide the results.  Scrolling down your page you will see the following results:

Just one of the many new cool feature addins to help us lowly admins do our jobs (which usually is to slap around Devs that make our job harder… this tool could help :)   )

Cheers… Much more to come