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Every ASP.NET developer faces the thorny issue of optimizing database access. Pro SQL Server 2005 High Performance: High-speed ASP.NET 2.0 Data Access is the most comprehensive and detailed guide to using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 optimally together. It focuses on building enterprise-level Web applications and provides a wealth of code samples that show exactly how to do it.

Written for experienced ASP.NET 2.0 programmers and SQL Server 2005 database administrators and developers, this is the only book that completely describes the crucial performance aspects of Web-based database applications and demonstrates how to design, configure, and code databases and Web applications for optimal performance.

"Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP .NET Applications" covers performance tuning and optimization for ASP.NET applications. Currently, the market is being flooded with a slew of books on how to write .NET applications, but, so far, there has not been a title that is devoted to the more advanced topic of tuning an ASP.NET application for maximum performance. There will be an increasing demand for this information as developers get comfortable with the technology and begin completing first versions of their ASP.NET applications. They will be looking for a book that dispenses with basic language tutorials, and instead tackles the real-world issues of performance. Intermediate to experienced developers, who are either working on an ASP.NET development project or are about to start one, will find "Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP .NET Applications" helpful for its concise information on how to design and write ASP.NET applications for optimal performance. These developers will already have a foundation with .NET technology, so Jeffrey Hasan will dispense with basic tutorials on how to write .NET code. Instead, Hasan will highlight what to use and what to avoid when coding for optimal performance. This will include a range of details that affect performance, from the very granular (e.g., working with strings) through to the broader (e.g., working with ViewState and Session State). Hasan will also cover the tools that are available for monitoring ASP.NET application performance, and will give the reader clear guidance on how to apply these tools to their project. These tools include Performance Monitor (with its new counters for .NET), Microsoft's Web Application Stress (WAS) tool, and Microsoft Application Center (that ships with Visual Studio Enterprise Edition).

Integrate proven performance and scalability techniques throughout the .NET application life cycle—and gain an edge in building better-performing products. This guide presents a robust framework organized by task and role, helping developers, architects, testers, and administrators prioritize and implement the best options at the appropriate time. It offers focused, end-to-end guidance—including processes for modeling performance and techniques for measuring, testing, and fine-tuning your applications. You’ll also get tips direct from Microsoft development teams for improving the performance and scalability of managed code; Microsoft ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and SQL Server; Web services; .NET Remoting; XML; and more. The book features a “How To” section that details the steps for a number of specific performance-related tasks, such as adding performance counters and using the common language runtime (CLR) profiler. PATTERNS & PRACTICES guides are reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, partners, and customers—delivering accurate, real-world information that’s been technically validated and tested.

Written in a practical and clear conversational style, this book is filled with real-life website performance scenarios. It is replete with lots of working code samples and practical advice, and just the right amount of theory you need to make sense of it all. This book is written for ASP.NET/SQL Server-based website developers who want to speed up their site using simple, proven tactics without going through a lot of unnecessary theoretical learning. If your website isn't performing well, this is the ideal book for you.

Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) is a graphical language for modelling and validating concurrent and distributed systems, and other systems in which concurrency plays a major role. The development of such systems is particularly challenging because of inherent intricacies like possible nondeterminism and the immense number of possible execution sequences. In this textbook Jensen and Kristensen introduce the constructs of the CPN modelling language and present the related analysis methods in detail. They also provide a comprehensive road map for the practical use of CPN by showcasing selected industrial case studies that illustrate the practical use of CPN modelling and validation for design, specification, simulation, verification and implementation in various application domains. Their presentation primarily aims at readers interested in the practical use of CPN. Thus all concepts and constructs are first informally introduced through examples and then followed by formal definitions (which may be skipped). The book is ideally suitable for a one-semester course at an advanced undergraduate or graduate level, and through its strong application examples can also serve for self-study. An accompanying website offers additional material such as slides, exercises and project proposals. Book website: http://www.cs.au.dk/CPnets/cpnbook/

Ultra-fast ASP.NET provides a practical guide to building extremely fast and scalable websites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. Written by a highly-experienced consultant it provides straight-forward guidance for achieving performance increases through clearly delimited alterations to website’s design and coding. The book deals with all aspects of website performance from client computer to the website code to the supporting IIS and SQL Servers that underpin it. This gives readers all the information that they need in a single volume.

The shift from stand-alone desktop applications to Web-enabled applications that accommodate hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users makes performance testing critical. Find out how to make your Microsoft® .NET-based applications perform as well as or better than traditional desktop applications with this book—written by the Microsoft team that tests and tunes hundreds of Web sites and Web-based applications. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the best available tools to plan and execute performance tests, configure profile tools, analyze performance data from Microsoft Internet Information Services, Microsoft ASP.NET, managed code, the SQL tier, and more. You’ll also learn how to use the testing methodology that Microsoft uses to stress test its own sites—some of the most popular, high-performance Web sites in the world.

Topics covered include:

• The testing methodology used on Microsoft.com, Xbox™.com, and other high-volume sites
• Planning the performance test
• Stress testing with Microsoft Application Center Test (ACT)
• Monitoring application performance with Performance Monitor
• Testing Web site security
• Application Network Analysis
• Analyzing the Web tier
• Analyzing managed code
• Analyzing the SQL tier
• Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

INCLUDED ON CD-ROM:

• A fully searchable electronic copy of the book
• Scripts that test the performance of IbuySpy.com

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Maximizing .NET Performance will focus on providing developers and architects with information on performance characteristics of various aspects of the .NET Framework. In addition to providing high-level material on achieving software with good performance characteristics, the book aims to educate readers on the design and implementation of the Framework, and to provide the tools and techniques to allow readers to conduct their own investigation into performance problems.

The dominant feature of the book will be the systematic analysis of performance relating to key Framework topics, like remoting, garbage collection, and threading. Rather than a 'tips and tricks' approach, the book aims to provide a detailed exploration of each topic, and explore the 'whys' and 'by how much' aspects of performance that are often overlooked.

If you want to build ASP.NET applications that perform well, you need this book.

This book will show you how to use the features offered by ASP.NET to develop efficient applications that will make the most of the hardware they run on.

The book covers:

How ASP.NET concepts relate to application performance
Designing for performance
Techniques for maximizing the performance of code
Using caching effectively
High performance data access
Performance Testing (including the ACT system that is integrated with Visual Studio .NET and the free WAS tool)
Tuning underperforming applications
Monitoring performance with built in and custom performance counters

The code in this book is presented in Visual Basic .NET

This monograph-like state-of-the-art survey presents the history, the key ideas, the success stories, and future challenges of performance evaluation and demonstrates the impact of performance evaluation on a variety of different areas through case studies in a coherent and comprehensive way. Leading researchers in the field have contributed 19 cross-reviewed topical chapters competently covering the whole range of performance evaluation, from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in numerous other fields. Additionally, the book contains one contribution on the role of performance evaluation in industry and personal accounts of four pioneering researchers describing the genesis of breakthrough results. The book will become a valuable source of reference and indispensable reading for anybody active or interested in performance evaluation.