This is making the rounds internally and worth posting here. Not brand new - but just due to the sheer exhaustive volume of guidance in this - if you haven't seen it yet it's worth reading and keeping around as a reference: "Improving .NET Application...

Rico posts some fun performance quizzes on his blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/ricom/archive/2004/08/18/216555.aspx [ejarvi]

I just noticed that richard posted on using VPC to try out instrumentation on his personal blog.

This is the second in my series of posts on what the heck all these numbers mean in the profiler. In instrumentation mode, we give 4 varieties of statistics for each function in the reports: - Elapsed Inclusive - Elapsed Exclusive - Application...