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Performance Development Lifecycle (PDL) Session Materials

Yesterday I gave a talk about the subject during Performance Open House First off, thanks for attending my talk. The materials are published here . Enjoy. Read More...

Posted 11 March 08 10:16 by alikl | 2 Comments   
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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

Security Code Review – Use Visual Studio Bookmarks To Capture Security Findings

How to streamline the process of capturing security flaws during security code review? How to save time and avoid switching between the tools? How to stay focused? In this post I will show my simple technique to capture security flaws using Bookmarks Read More...

Posted 24 January 08 01:38 by alikl | 3 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Security, Tools, Code Inspection, Practices

Create Your Own Guidance Explorer Items Inside Outlook 2007

Want to create your own nuggets of wisdom? Want it to look and feel like patterns&practices nuggets of wisdom look and feel? Want to reuse it, mix and match with existing ones? It is easy and fast with Outlook 2007. I will show how I extend my knowledge Read More...

Posted 10 January 08 04:52 by alikl | 1 Comments   
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Consume patterns&practices Guidance Explorer Via RSS Using Outlook 2007

patterns&practices recently released new version of Guidance Explorer [GE]. One of the most important addition was enabling RSS on the online GE store. What does that mean? It means you can consume distilled security, performance, and Visual Studio Read More...

Posted 03 January 08 09:43 by alikl | 6 Comments   
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Identify ASP.NET, Web Services, And WCF Performance Issues By Examining IIS Logs

Simple examination of IIS logs can reveal potential performance issues related to ASP.NET web applications, ASP.NET web services, and IIS hosted WCF services. Fast, easy, cheap. These are the simple steps I take: Time-Taken & W3C Logs: Turn it on... Read More...

Posted 02 November 07 10:49 by alikl | 10 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Performance, Practices

Use Sysinternals DebugView To Diagnose The Application

"Unspecified error", "Catastrophic failure", "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" and other "self explanatory" errors promise no easy debugging. Good instrumentation of the application to the rescue! The techniques described in the paper Read More...

Posted 16 July 07 06:42 by alikl | 7 Comments   
Filed under Tools, Development Phase, Implementation, Practices, Auditing and Logging

Visual Studio 2005 As General Code Search Tool

Visual Studio 2005 has powerful search capabilities. One of my favorites is "Find in Files". Just hit Ctrl+Shift+F (more shortcuts - My Favorite Shortcuts ). Essentially it uses FindStr utility that sits in System32 folder and comes for free with Windows Read More...

Posted 05 June 07 10:50 by alikl | 7 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Code Inspection, VSTS, Practices

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer - The New Wave

Guidance Explorer is not only very powerful security (and performance) guidance tool - recently it met VSTS guidance launched on CodePlex . To make the long story short, Guidance Explorer seems to serve as the solid framework to build and extend guidance Read More...

Posted 28 March 07 08:57 by alikl | 1 Comments   
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