Does anyone know if it is possible to force a small object to be allocated on the Large Object Heap (LOH)? Thanks, Frank ...more >>

Hi, I have developed an ASP.NET application. I placed SmartNavigation = True. Even then, when I browse my .aspx page, it is flickering. I am using IE 6.0 Can anyone explain me?? -- Ever Loving, Marketta...more >>

(longish message, but I appreciate ANY insight) We have a .NET 1.1 Winforms application that recently started to exhibit some odd behavior. Specifically, after sitting idle for a while (> 30 minutes), the user's CPU starts getting hammered. Here's some background info: First, it's a desktop...more >>

Hi all. I'm trying to optimize a tight loop which is inside a drawing routine. It's written in C#, and the loop itself is in an unsafe block. As I'm working on pixels, I have declared a struct: public struct RGB { public byte B; public byte G; public byte R; } ....And I'm working ...more >>

I posted this earlier in the framework.windowsforms newsgroup, but in light of our deadline and the fact that this is very likely a performance-related issue, I'm looking for clues here as to what may be possible causes for slow window dragging. Our app is a skinned app, and until recently had no...more >>

I'm writing a connector for a client to replace an old VB6 system. The connector works, but is several times slower than the older VB6 connector. I have isolated the problem to be in the connection to the server. All we are doing is sending a input stream to the server and receiving an output st...more >>

I have a few ideas on improvements to CLRProfiler and need to know where to send them....more >>

I have a problem when loading some pretty large images. The images are ~700mb uncompressed, and the two first times I load an image, everything works fine. Each time I'm done with an image, I force a Garbage Collection using GC.Collect() and I can see in the task manager that resources are act...more >>

Hi, we have Ms Word XP, we have to automate word to start a C# application. we coded a C# dll as a COM server and the COM Server calls to the server application .Net written with remoting over tcp. we managed to do that and it works great until we are returning from the tcp server our sear...more >>

Hi All, I am having performance issues with the .NET client calling the Java Webservice running on axis. Have detailed the problem below. Please help. I wrote a webservice in Java. Lets name this WebService1. (using Apache Axis 1.1) Scenario 1: ----------- I have a VB.NET code exposed ...more >>

Hi, I've built an assembly that's going to be deployed to the global assembly cache of a few servers and I'm wondering what the best way to reference it is? I've deployed the assembly to my local machine's GAC and currently reference it in an app's web.config file within the compilation\assembl...more >>

Hi group I have one ebook for (ebook)-70-315 MCSD MCAD -- Develop & Implement Web Apps with C#.pdf (www.correctexams.com) And ebook for O'Reilly - Programming C# 2nd Edition.pdf In return of that I want Amit Kalani's book and Microsoft MCAD/MCSD Self Started Kit. We can work i...more >>

Hi, Is it necessary to dispose the objects created in procedure be disposed manually? Why can't we just rely on the GC to do the job? For example: I have this: Sub SomeSub1() '...some code... If IsSubgroupOf(code, GetDataSet()) Then '... End If 'Here I c...more >>

Hi, I need similiar tool like Allocation Profiler but that will check also unmanaged code allocations (my projects consists of managed and unmanaged code). Is there something like this? Regards, mircu...more >>

All, This is probably the wrong forum, but I cannot find a general web environment design/scaling newsgroup. We are needing a load balancing solution for our SSL servers. We have been using a DNS round robin for the regular sites and it's a cheap way to accomplish load balancing. Since SSL c...more >>

Hi, Are there any reports or benchmarks for the performance of .net based web applications (with Oracle as back-end) on a WAN? Please pass on the information as it is critical for my project to get started. Thanks and Regards Bala ...more >>

Hi, Can one tune the Framework memory management? I have an app that fills a large table (approx 10 million records - 2 int columns), however prior to filling the table an exception is thrown claiming I am out of memory. I've checked the memory usage at this point (using TaksManager Perform...more >>

I've got a server that appends text to the end of a file whenever it does anything. If I close the file after each write, the server runs like a dog. If I don't it's fine, but the fact that the file is then permanently open for writing bothers me - like I can't delete it unless I first shut the ...more >>

PHP and ASP.NET Go Head-to-Head By Sean Hull http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/hull_asp.html SUMMARY at the BOTTOM Speed and efficiency. As I mentioned earlier, ASP.NET is a framework allowing you to use various programming languages. In addition, it is touted as having a great object-ori...more >>

Hello all, for my image processing application I need a large amount of virtual memory. I read, that it is normaly possible to get 2GB of virtual memory for each process and when you modify the boot.ini file it should be possible to get 3GB vitual memory for one process. I have tried to alloc...more >>

Hello. I am attempting to load a large xBase (dbf) file into a data grid using Ole DB in a Vb.Net application. The dbf file has about 70k records in it. Retrieving this data takes forever. Can anyone provide any pointers that would speed the access/loading of this file. I am open to any data ac...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use the .Net httpWebRequest objects to make asynch calls. I'm creating a crawler and I'm hoping to increase performance. Initially I was running into thread pooling issues but was able to find a way to increase the default 25 threads. This has partially solved my problem. ...more >>

I have a system (written in C#) which writes out a large number of small textfiles. (300,000+) Performance is an issue here, during the actual writing of the files stage of the application the processor runs at approx 20% and there is not continuous disk activity. You can also continue to use th...more >>

Hi All, I was reading Perforance and Scalability Guide and reading Session State Management section. It says use SQL Server when using Web farm . No where are the metrics and the Why's are msiisng. The question that comes to mind is :- 1. When using SQL Server or State Server , will the cost o...more >>

Hallo, I get in my application server after a couple of days OutOfMemory-Exceptions. When the OutOfMemory-Exceptions occurs, the process shows ca. 400 MB virtual Memory in the Task Manager. Available are 3 GB real RAM and 5 GB virtual Memory on the maschine. The application server works ...more >>

DEAR MICROSOFT: STOP TOUCHING MY CODE!!!!!! Stop ADDING these attributes to my tags meta:resourcekey="LiteralResource3" Your Web Developer 2005 express added that crappy and unneeded attribute to all my tags on my aspx page...you even added that attribute to the @page directive. ...more >>

DEAR MICROSOFT: STOP TOUCHING MY CODE!!!!!! Stop ADDING these attributes to my tags meta:resourcekey="LiteralResource3" Your Web Developer 2005 express added that crappy and unneeded attribute to all my tags on my aspx page...you even added that attribute to the @page directive. ...more >>