SharePoint 2010 introduced the developer dashboard to check bugs in the browser itself.
There are several ways to enable the developer dashboard in SharePoint 2010/2013/2016. I always prefer the PowerShell method, but for the sake of completeness, I will show several options here. We will see how we can enable the developer dashboard using PowerShell, using the object model and using stsadm.
Notice that there are the following options for the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint:
On
SharePoint 2010: The Developer Dashboard will always be rendered at the bottom of each page
SharePoint 2013/2016: The Developer Dashboard icon will always be displayed at the top right corner. It will not be appended to each page.
Off
SharePoint 2010 & 2013: The Developer Dashboard will not be available in SharePoint.
OnDemand
SharePoint 2010: The Developer Dashboard will only be appended to a page after clicking on the icon in the ribbon
SharePoint 2013: This mode is not available in SharePoint 2013 since it reflects the behavior of On now
There are different ways we can enable or disable the developer dashboard in SharePoint 2010/2013/2016.
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Below is the PowerShell command to enable the developer dashboard in SharePoint 2010/2013/2016.
$devdashboard =[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings;
$devdashboard.DisplayLevel = ‘OnDemand’;
$devdashboard.Update()
Write-Host ("Developer Dashboard Level: " + $contentService.DeveloperDashboardSettings.DisplayLevel)We can also SharePoint server object model code to enable the developer dashboard in SharePoint.
SPWebService service = SPWebService.ContentService;
service.DeveloperDashboardSettings.DisplayLevel=Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel.OnDemand;
service.Update();We can also use the STSADM command to enable the developer dashboard in SharePoint.
STSADM.exe -o setproperty -pn
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The Developer Dashboard can be disabled by setting the display level value to “Off”. As needed the display level can be set to “On”, “Off” or “OnDemand” in the above code snippets. This operation requires a farm administrator permission. Make sure you have farm admin access before enabling/disabling developer dashboard.
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