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DebugView - Free Simple Tool To Quickly Identify Performance Problems

     DebugView is well known free tool from Systinternals (Microsoft) . Vast majority of developers is aware of its existence. Nevertheless, I've decided to write this post following my practice of journaling my technical accomplishments Read More...

Posted 11 November 08 05:12 by alikl | 4 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Development Phase, Performance

ASP.NET Performance: Fast AJAX, Faster AJAX

      AJAX improves significantly both user experience and performance. It can be further improved by using down level capabilities that .Net framework offers. Specifically, consuming Web Services and WCF directly from client script. Read More...

Posted 29 October 08 12:43 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, AJAX

Improve ASP.NET 2.0 Performance With PageAsyncTask - Multithreading For The Masses

      Multithreading is tough. This is what John Robbins says about it in his excellent book Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications : "Don't do it... Make sure there's no other way you can structure your program before you Read More...

Posted 02 October 08 11:31 by alikl | 0 Comments   
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Best ASP.NET Performance Winner For Data Binding - Hands Up To Response.Write()

     To achieve best performance you need to make decisions based on trade-off between coolness, coding productivity, and personal engineering values. I never thought I would be recommending my customer considering using old fashion Read More...

Posted 31 July 08 03:29 by alikl | 21 Comments   
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Improve ASP.NET Performance With Multithreading Using Thread Or ThreadPool Objects

Your ASP.NET application performs slower than expected? How many times do you access your database for each request? Did you use SQL Profiler to find out? Did you know that chatty database access is one of the most common performance sins (this is my Read More...

Posted 23 June 08 01:27 by alikl | 8 Comments   
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Pitfalls With .Net Multithreading And COM Objects – Threads Must Have Compatible Apartment Models (MTA vs. STA)

Be alert when implementing multithreading .Net in conjunction with COM objects. Thread apartment models matter. .Net threads have Multi Threaded Apartment (MTA) model by default. COM objects have Single Thread Apartment (STA). Calling on COM objects on Read More...

Posted 20 June 08 10:09 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase, Threading

WCF Security - Input/Data Validation Using Schemas

WCF offers very flexible approach of Input and Data Validation based on XML Schemas. The approach is flexible since the validation rules are expressed in form of XML schema and can be changed at any time without recompiling the solution. I followed the Read More...

Posted 25 May 08 03:52 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under WCF, Input Validation, Security, Development Phase, Implementation

WCF Security - Input/Data Validation Sample Visual Studio Project

Input and Data Validation is one of the core security principles . WCF is no exception . To get most out of WCF in secure way one must implement proper Input and Data Validation. I was following instructions on How To – Perform Input Validation Read More...

Posted 25 May 08 12:17 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under WCF, Input Validation, Security, Development Phase, Implementation

ASP.NET Performance Sin - Serving Images Dynamically (Or Another Reason To Love Fiddler)

Serving images dynamically may cause performance hit. Dynamically served images require more HTTP requests which violates Steve Souders' performance rule #1 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests . The latency is also caused by parallelism (or parallel downloading) Read More...

Posted 02 May 08 02:12 by alikl | 7 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase

Free Performance Tool - Analyze IIS Logs Like A Pro With Funnel Web Analyzer

These free performance tools will save you time and money identifying performance bottlenecks. Your customers will thank you for building fast and responsive applications. Funnel Web Analyzer 5.0 for Windows Download the tool here. Analyzer gives insight Read More...

Posted 21 April 08 11:16 by alikl | 10 Comments   
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patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance Project - live on Codeplex

patterns & practices has recently released WCF Security Guidance Project . JD , the program manager behind the effort, has been blogging about it too.It is evolving project but the initial content is fantastic already. It has Application Scenarios Read More...

Posted 02 April 08 08:53 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under WCF, Security, Development Phase, Implementation, Practices

How To Consume WCF Using AJAX Without ASP.NET

How to consume WCF services directly from Html client? How to add AJAX-like functionally to application that does not natively support ASP.NET AJAX like classic ASP, ASP.NET 1.1, or PHP? WCF that ships with .Net 3.5 provides capability to consume it from Read More...

Posted 18 February 08 08:35 by alikl | 11 Comments   
Filed under WCF, Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase, AJAX

Performance Sin - Using Exceptions To Control Flow

Want to spot coding anti-patterns from performance perspective without actually looking in the code? One of the common performance coding anti-patterns I’ve noticed lately is using Exception Handling to control program flow. The anti-patterns Most Read More...

Posted 02 February 08 01:19 by alikl | 4 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Development Phase, Performance, Practices, Exception Handling

Performance Code Review Tool – Practices Checker

Care about performance? Do you write your code with performance in mind? Want little help to spot performance bottlenecks automatically? Practices Checker to the rescue. The goal of the tool is “Help you perform a manual code inspection by analyzing Read More...

Posted 21 January 08 09:37 by alikl | 8 Comments   
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How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server – Revised

This is a follow up post to Basic Sample - How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server ASP.NET 2.0 offers much easier built-in mechanism to save ViewState on the server in Session using SessionPageStatePersister . Thanks to Russ who pointed me to this Read More...

Posted 08 January 08 08:13 by alikl | 2 Comments   
Filed under Development Phase, Implementation, Performance

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