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Here is an interesting WCF exception you may have encountered before. In my case we were looking into a performance issue for a client. Environment This setup is pretty common. A set of load-balanced web servers is talking to a load-balanced WCF middle tier. The middle tier interacts with the...

There has been a lot of uproar over Red Gate's recent decision to charge for the .Net Reflector tool. As a Microsoft employee that spends a lot of time with performance and debugging tools, Reflector is essential. When Red Gate bought the rights to Reflector from Lutz Roeder, I felt that it was only...

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 tune an application, those performance...

Some may have read Mark Russinovich's blog before. If you have not, he likes to post about ways to use tools, esp. SysInternals , to diagnose strange problems in Windows. This inspired me to try my hand at diagnosing a weird issue with my home computer. A few months before my motherboard died and since...