Enabling Developer Dashboard using Powershell in sharepoint 2010

 

Developer Dashboard is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 , to take a look and understand the page performance . Now developer can see various performance related information and can optimize page performance accordingly .This feature was not availaible in early version of SharePoint .

1.Open Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell as administrator .

2.Basically their are 3 modes which Sharepoint 2010 provides for Developer Dashboard

a.) on - dispalys Developer Dashboard at the bottom of all the pages everytime

b.) off - it will disable the Developer Dashboard

c. ) onDemand - displays  the Developer Dashboard on click of an icon , at top-right corner of  the page.Developer Dashboard will be at the bottom of the page .

Note : Below is the example showing onDemand mode powershell script

$contentService =[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$dashboardSetting = $contentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings
$dashboardSetting.DisplayLevel =[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::OnDemand
$dashboardSetting.Update()

3. Execute the above script on Sharepoint 2010 Poweshell . 

4. An icon at the  top-right corner of the page will gets appear .

 5. Click the icon , now  you can see your Developer Dashboard at the bottom of the page .