Enabling the SharePoint Developer Dashboard

(Thanks to Ankur Goyal, one of the PowerPivot mid-tier testers)

SharePoint 2010 comes with a whole group of new developer tools. But there is none cooler than the Developer Dashboard. The Developer Dashboard allows you to monitor page load performance on SharePoint. Now how cool is that – you see how each element on the page loads! You can enable this tool by running the following PowerShell scripts on the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell on the WFE. For example, here is my Start menu:

And here is the script:

$webSvc = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$webSvc.CollectSPRequestAllocationCallStacks = ‘True’
$webSvc.Update()
$webSvc.DeveloperDashboardSettings.EnableDiagnosticMode()

This tool allows you to see query statistics on any SharePoint page, basically what is running and for how long. Once you run the above script, you will see an extra icon on the top left side of the page (as shown below).

Once you will click on it, it will give you a detail history at the bottom of the page.

Notice all of the information that now appears at the bottom of the page. Now how cool is that!!

Enjoy.