February, 2011

The ServiceModel performance counters can tell you how many concurrent calls, instances, and sessions you have. In .Net 4.0, more counters were added to tell you how close you are to the throttles for each of those categories. So if you're trying to performance...

Custom activities that perform long-running work can affect workflow performance in unexpected ways. Understanding WF's threading model and scheduler can help activity authors make informed decisions about their code. This post intends to shed some light...

Part of the performance enhancements made in WF4 are in the size of the workflow instance state. There are a number of contributing design decisions: Separation of workflow definition from workflow instance - I like to think of this as the separation...

When writing custom activities for WF4, the latest revision of Windows Workflow, new to the .Net 4.0 Framework, you can cut some performance costs by overriding the CacheMetadata method. By default, CacheMetadata will use reflection to determine what...

Microsoft has offered employees free Windows Phone 7 phones. This means a lot of people around the office are carrying them now. Before that, if there was any one most popular device it was the iPhone. I also had a first-gen iPhone before switching to...