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Performance Testing Microsoft .NET Web Applications (Pro-Developer)
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Fast Dynamic Property Accessors
Fast run-time access to Property Values using the new (.Net 2.0) DynamicMethod class and a very small amount of Emitted IL code.
A Fast Serialization Technique
Transparently boosting serialization performance and shrinking the serialized object's size.
A Fast CSV Reader
A reader that provides fast, non-cached, forward-only access to CSV data.
Share The Load: Report Visual Studio Team System Load Test Results Via A Configurable Web Site
This article discusses a new load test tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System for performance and stress testing your Web sites, Web services, and other server components. Combined with its handy reporting capabilities, the load test tool provides some powerful options for sharing and managing test results.
3 May 2006, 19:00:00 Source: Share The Load: Report Visual Studio Team System Load...
Tags: Testing
Performance
Concurrent Affairs: Reader/Writer Locks
The Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library includes a ReaderWriterLock class in the System.Threading namespace. This month Jeffrey Richter explains when to use it and how you can get better threading performance.
.NET Offers a "First Chance" to Squelch Performance-killing Hidden Exceptions
Uncaught exceptions in your .NET applications can turn an otherwise high-performance application into a snail, especially those that are allowed to be "eaten" by subsequent code. Find out how to use very handy "First Chance" exception feature in the .NET debugger to root out nasty hidden exceptions.
Cache In On the Enterprise Library Caching Block for .NET 2.0
Nearly every application needs to cache data. While you're probably familiar wth the caching functionality built into ASP.NET, the Enterprise Library Caching Block provides in-memory, file-based, or database caching storage for all your other .NET applications.
6 Apr 2006, 14:31:53 Source: Cache In On the Enterprise Library Caching Block for .NET...
Tags: Performance
CLR Inside Out: The performance benefits of NGen.
JIT compilation has its advantages, but it has its drawbacks, too. NGen may help to improve the performance of your applications. Surupa Biswas shows you why and when.
5 Apr 2006, 19:00:00 Source: CLR Inside Out: The performance benefits of NGen.
Tags: Performance
Software
TraceTool 6: The Swiss-Army knife of trace
A C#, C++, Delphi, and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, outputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This comes with full support for Pocket PC development.
4 Apr 2006, 12:24:00 Source: TraceTool 6: The Swiss-Army knife of trace
Tags: Debug
Performance
Software
NTime - Performance unit testing tool
An article on a performance testing tool to test an application against its performance.

