Measure string size – the right way.(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Recently I needed to measure an exact size in memory for a string – asked a developer sitting next to me how would he do it. An answer was: “Take a string’s length multiply by 2(it’s a UTF-8 encoding) – you will get an exact size”. read more...

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Performance: Garbage collection modes.(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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There are allots of improvements that can be done within application’s configuration file the only catch with it – you have to know that it’s exists. read more...

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Security: Store strings in-memory securely.(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Lots of developers are not familiar with the fact that string variables are stored in memory as a plain text and can be stolen with simple memory dump. Therefore they are revealed to anyone who has an access to a server. read more...

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Web Performance: Stress tests to IIS 7.0 data compression.(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Stress tests to IIS 7.0 data compression. read more...

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Web Performance: Data compression with IIS 7.0(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Improve website performance easily read more...

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Web Performance: AXD files compression.(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Data compression tweaks for IIS read more...

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Web Performance: Expiration data - IIS 6.0(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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In scenarios when your server is overloaded with an enormous amount of requests, you can (and probably should) use a great feature of IIS 6.0 - expiration date. This way after 5 minutes of “intensive”work number of web requests can be reduced significantly. read more...

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Web Performance: Enable data compression on IIS 6.0 server.(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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One of the easiest ways to improve web application performance is to enable data compression. Enabling data compression on IIS 6.0 server can save up to 80% of network utilization by the price of up to 10% and often less than 1% of CPU ratio without changing single line of code. read more...

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Measure web page performance with Yslow(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Sometimes measuring web performance can be easy... read more...

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Exposing user control client events to host page server side(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

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Handling your user control events in your hosting page server side read more...

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RTL in Silverlight(ayende.com)

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Description of community solution on RTL problem in Silverlight read more...

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