Christy Henriksson

Currently focused on ASP.NET WebStack performance, among other things

ASP.NET Performance Counters on Windows Client + IIS Express

I learned recently that ASP.NET performance counters are not available on Windows 7 or 8 (client)...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 09/12/2012

Receive-Side Scaling: Maximizing Web Server CPU

UPDATE 1/7/2013: I recently re-ran the scenario on the original hardware and could not reproduce the...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 03/26/2012

Debugging W3WP Startup

On a few occasions, I have needed to debug the startup of the IIS worker process (w3wp).  I...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 03/19/2012

Load Balancing Your Web Server

A recent regression in the ASP.NET performance lab prompted us to make a change to our...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 03/14/2012

A Look Inside the IE Performance Lab

The Windows 8 blog details the Internet Explorer Performance Lab.  It’s always fun to see how...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 02/17/2012

Performance Counter Collection

As mentioned in my “Hello, World” post, performance counters are a great diagnostic tool for...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 02/13/2012

ASP.NET Performance Lab: Hello, World!

I thought I could shed some light on the ASP.NET performance testing by presenting our most basic...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 02/06/2012

Web Performance Blog

This week I launched a new blog that will focus on the performance of Microsoft’s Web Stack....

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 02/02/2012

TypeDescriptor Updates in .NET4

This is the fifth in my blog series on Visual Studio 2010 Designer Multi-Targeting A few updates...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 11/19/2010

Sorting on Dynamic Members at Runtime

Earlier this year I got to play with the DLR a little while working on the WebGrid for ASP.NET Web...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 11/19/2010

Enabling Multi-Targeting for Control Designers

This is the fourth in my blog series on Visual Studio 2010 Designer Multi-Targeting As mentioned in...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 06/01/2010

Multi-Targeting Designer Services

This is the third in my blog series on Visual Studio 2010 Designer Multi-Targeting Visual Studio...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 05/11/2010

Excluding Code from MSTest Coverage Results

In order to write testable code, I sometimes need to add internal test APIs which take ASP.NET...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 05/07/2010

Designer Filtering using Reference Assemblies

This is the second in my blog series on Visual Studio 2010 Designer Multi-Targeting. Visual Studio...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 05/05/2010

XHTML Validation with XmlReader

As a developer on the ASP.NET team, it’s hard for me to avoid writing HTML.  And it’s important...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 04/30/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Designer Multi-Targeting

Visual Studio 2010 has been out for a couple of weeks now.  What a great time for me to kick...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 04/28/2010

A Project’s Target Framework

This is the first in my blog series on Visual Studio 2010 Designer Multi-Targeting.  When...

Author: Christy Henriksson Date: 04/28/2010