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In the second of our two-part feature on identifying, diagnosing, and repairing memory leaks in Window Store apps, Chipalo Street and Dan Taylor focus on C#, VB, and C++ optimizations.

Since the beginning of .NET, developers have been able to take advantage of multithreading when developing applications. In fact we’ve been given more than one programming model to accommodate just about any requirement that might come across. There’s the Thread class, the Thread Pool, the Async Pattern, and the Background Worker. Well, as if that isn’t enough, we now have a couple of more patterns that bring with them another genre - parallel programming.

This article explores the advantages and disadvantages of interfaces that can be used to replace delegates, considering performance, ease of use and versatility.

increase performance of your old code with simple operator addition

The Task Parallel Library (TPL) provides all the necessary infrastructure to achieve optimal utilization of CPU resources within a single multicore computer. Now you can also implement an approach that scales across computer’s boundaries--useful for workload automation and batch processing scenarios.

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers team up to introduce some of the exciting new features in Visual Studio Test Manager 2012, including better exploratory testing, improved performance, video recording enhancements and many more.

Here we will try to implement different service behaviors to increase service performance

In the world of browser-based development, interoperability is king. Unfortunately, interoperability can be at the expense of performance.

Many developers think stored procedures are precompiled so they are faster. I have a different story to tell.

When a team at Microsoft first conceived of SharePoint, the product team decided that the content database was the best place to store file uploads in SharePoint. Before you pull out daggers, consider that there were many advantages to this choice. You can never have a virus corrupting the server in an upload that goes into the database. No filename issues. Transaction support. Easy backups, etc. Also, believe it or not, for a certain file size (smaller the better), databases can actually offer better performance than traditional file systems for storage. In addition, the product team decided to rely heavily on GUIDs and clustered indexes inside the content database - again, a choice with positives and negatives.