When a busy developer is running under tight deadlines, every instrument that helps increase productivity would be in high demands. Visual Studio 2010 with Power Tools is a heaven for .NET developers but developers would always ask for more and it’s...

Introduction In the first part of the article we have introduced and analyzed the problem regarding the transmission and reception of a large message via a WCF Receive Location. In particular, we discussed the difference between the Buffered and Streamed...

As shown in the previous precompiled view blog ( Isolating Performance with Precompiled/Pre-generated Views in the Entity Framework 4 ), views can significantly improve performance in various scenarios such as first-run; memory usage; and execution of...

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Recently, while working on a customer performance lab with Windows Server AppFabric, I came across an interesting behavior after purging the AppFabric monitoring data that I thought is worth sharing. Background In our previous post on AppFabric...

Processing of Monitoring Data in AppFabric - Overview Windows Server AppFabric uses a monitoring data store to capture tracking data generated by the execution of WCF and WF services. By default and out of the box, the data store implementation is...

When calling a query multiple times with Entity Framework the recommended approach is to use compiled LINQ queries. Compiling a query results in a performance hit the first time you use the query but subsequent calls execute much faster. The CompiledQuery...

A previous post discussed potential issues with Compiled Query recompiles. The cause of the recompile issues were actually uncovered by using the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler . This blog will cover how the Profiler can be used to discover performance issues...

Check out the Epicor Case Study that was recently published by one of our partners. Epicor is a global software company that creates enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for manufacturing firms and other customers. They have been able to leverage...

Introduction Working with customer’s solutions, we often have to track down potential performance issues or uncover areas for improvement. One of the techniques is to try and measure the relative performance gained using the different configurations...