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Talking Software Performance with Rico Mariani

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:56:20 GMT

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with Mr. Performance, Rico Mariani, the Chief Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft. Rico has been at Microsoft for 20 years. Before taking on his role as Chief Architect, he spent 5 years working on performance in one capacity or another.

Consulting And Security Reviews - How To Get Everyone Onboard

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:43:40 GMT

This post discusses the obstacles to implementing security reviews and the secrets to holding effective and successful regular security reviews.

Software Development's Classic Mistakes 2008

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:51:08 GMT

So, what are the most frequently development mistakes? Read this to find out more...

ASP.NET Performance By Design: Takeaways From PDC

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:13:13 GMT

The digest for PDC "Performance By Design" sessions

ASP.NET Performance: Fast AJAX, Faster AJAX

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:51:29 GMT

Utilize ASP.NET AJAX hidden gems to improve AJAX performance by directly calling web services.

ASP.NET Performance: Dynamically Loaded Assemblies Cause Application R

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:35:43 GMT

Walkthrough to identify the root cause of application recycles in ASP.NET

.Net Performance And Security Knowledge Management (Including Sharepoi

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:28:05 GMT

Use MS Sharepoint to manage your .Net Security and Performance Engineering (or any other) knowledge. Applying simple steps you can create a very powerful KB (Knowledge Base) to serve your needs. It will allow you find very quickly relevant knowledge either using categories or keyword search.

ASP.NET Performance: High CPU Utilization Case Studies And Solutions

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:55:23 GMT

This post shares case studies of high CPU utilization of ASP.NET web sites. High CPU utilization was caused by lack of batch compilation, multiple folders, and use of XmlSerializer. In all cases the result was high CPU and poor performance; the symptom was .NET CLR Loading\Current Assemblies counter showing "unusual" number of loaded assemblies.

WebResource Embedded Resource Files Caching

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:54:09 GMT

The post describe a performance problem that was encountered in the area of WebResources.

ASP.NET Data Binding Performance - Collection Is More Expensive Than D

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:23:44 GMT

Binding custom collection is expensive performance wise since internally it uses reflection and reflection is expensive thing to do. Looping is expensive performance wise too but it is cheaper than reflection.

Best ASP.NET Performance Winner For Data Binding

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

To achieve best performance you need to make decisions based on trade-off between coolness, coding productivity, and personal engineering values. I never thought I would be recommending my customer considering using old fashion Response.Write() in his Internet facing ASP.NET web application in order to significantly improve the application's performance. Customer Case Study...

Security Code Review - String Search Patterns For Finding Vulnerabilit

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:02:19 GMT

Security code inspections is sort of searching in the dark. However, security vulnerabilities in many cases* are recurrent anti-patterns that can be identified by well defined set of string searches.

25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides, .NET blogs and how tos about improving .NET performance.

The limitations of WCF sessions - part 1: Transport-level dependence

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:20:26 GMT

The first thing to note about session in WCF, is that they rely heavily on the underlying transport mechanism.

ASP.NET Performance Engineering - Stress Test Your Architecture, Desig

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:42:11 GMT

Field experience proves - the earlier performance is tackled in development lifecycle the better results achieved. Below are most frequent practices that were most helpful in my engagement with the customers.

ASP.NET Performance Sin - Serving Images Dynamically (Or Another Reaso

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:20:28 GMT

Serving images dynamically may cause performance hit. Dynamically served images require more HTTP requests which violates Steve Souders' performance rule #1 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests. The latency is also caused by parallelism (or parallel downloading) limitations as described in detail here Performance Research, Part 4: Maximizing Parallel Downloads in the Carpool Lane

WPF performance profiling tools

Thu, 01 May 2008 02:46:10 GMT

The WPF Performance Suite is a set of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the runtime behavior of your WPF application.

Performance Sin - Chatty Database Access And Loops (Plus Another Free

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:18:26 GMT

Chatty database access is the surefire way for slow performance caused by resources starvation that might even lead to denial of service.

IIS7 Admin Pack Offers Built In Performance Analysis Reports

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:56:37 GMT

You need an ad-hoc simple-to-use tool to analyze your web site behavior under load during development, testing, and maintenance phases.

Improve .Net Applications Performance Effectively And Efficiently

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:55:33 GMT

How to anticipate or better off avoid performance related "surprises" during load and stress testing? Apply performance engineering practices throughout SDLC (Software Development LifeCycle). Here are major talking points, tools, resources, and further reading.

Generate Security Code Review Checklist Document Using Outlook 2007

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:11:36 GMT

How to generate Security Code Review Checklist using patterns & practices Guidance Explorer and Outlook 2007.

Adding a DotNetKicks image via Javascript

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:46:02 GMT

Simple Javascript function which adds the DotNetKicks counter button to your pages.