Performance Testing SL

greengumby posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Hi Guys,

I have to run some performance tests on our servers to see how many concurrent SL instances we can have running.

Our SL app is using CSLAlight ->WCF ->CSLA ->EF

Now due to the 2 thread browser limitation I can't really use SL. I theoretically could use SL but i think spawning that many browser instances would fail anyway.

I thought about creating a Windows app and adding references to the Silverlight CSLA library files but I think serialization may complain. Maybe WPF?

So just wondering what options I have.

Cheers
Jeremy

RockfordLhotka replied on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

I'm not entirely sure the 2 request limit exists when using WCF in Silverlight. Remember that Silverlight is an ActiveX control (on Windows) and so is only sort of running in the browser - it could easily establish more than 2 TCP requests if that's how Microsoft designed it.

greengumby replied on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Thanks Rocky,

I must admit I have not tested this functionality.

Read it here though

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229011/aynchronous-web-server-calls-in-silverlight-and-maximum-http-connections

I think I will take what the web says with a grain of salt and see what actually happens. :)

Will post my results.

Cheers
Jeremy