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Microsoft Research have released a very interesting looking prototype of a tool for investigating the performance of the client side of web applications that use JavaScript on the client. You can download it here and there is a usage walkthrough here
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This question arose out of a support case that my colleague Susanne and I handled recently for one of our customers. The situation was that the first request to an ASPX page was taking in excess of 15 seconds whereas subsequent requests were very fast
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I frequently find my self needing to look up the reference information for ASP.NET configuration settings. I find the fastest way to do this is to use a web search engine and include the words "asp.net schema" in my search terms, for example: That usually
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A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download, Kima posed an interesting question in the comments. Kima asked whether the new enforcement of NX compatability by the C# compiler after the application of
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The "time-taken" field in IIS logs can be useful for figuring out whether your web site is performing as well as expected. Starting with IIS6, this value includes the time for the response to be fully received by the client, unlike in previous versions
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This is a number that is going to become very familiar to me over the coming months and probably years. It'll join a hall of fame, along with 42, 832, 2032, 288,6018. Why? Is it my ATM pin? My new car registration? No, neither of these. It is in fact
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An interesting point about the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is that it is both a service pack AND a full install. By that I mean if you already have .NET 2.0 installed then it gets updated. If you haven't, it doesn't matter, it gets installed anyway. The "service
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Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier . Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! I think we can expect lots more download links to go live in the coming hours and days and plenty
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Sadly, from time to time, the .NET 2.0 performance counters can go a bit wrong. This is a handy article to remember when you need to troubleshoot them. Doug
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Let's be clear from the start, if you read the readme.htm (which I did, uncharacteristically) for Orcas Beta 2 it does not list Windows Server 2008 as a currently supported operating system so I can't blame anyone else for my pain.... So despite the warning
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I came across this interesting profile of Scott Guthrie. It covers some of the history of how ASP.NET came about as well as how ASP.NET was the first product to take a big bet on the CLR. If you don't subscribe to it already, I would strongly recommend
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I ran into a minor problem with an existing web site I have which was running Orcas Beta1 after I upgraded to Beta2. It's a content rich site so I spend quite a lot of time just editing pages in between doing actual builds and while editing I kept seeing
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[last update - 20th November 2007 - added 938276 and .NET 2.0 SP1 entry,] [previous update - 31st August 2007 - added 939866,] [previous update - 3rd August 2007 - corrected some of the versions for current beta products] There is nothing worse than wrestling
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Came across this article recently (someone pointed it out to me but I can't remember who, sorry). It has 15 timeless tips for ensuring your ASP.NET applications perform well. Talking about performance, if you are looking for a tool to test your application's
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I took over a case from my colleague Carlo the other day. Carlo has already blogged about it in some detail so I won't go over the detail again. We both spent quite a bit of time solving it so I tried to reflect afterward on why it took us the time it
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