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all groups > dotnet performance > january 2006

Get Line Number from Stack
Posted by Anthony Malt at 1/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I'm trying to get the current Line Number from the Stack with stackFrame.GetFileLineNumber, how ever the method return 0. What's my error? Thanks in advance for any advice Anthony -- Anthony Malt ...more >>


Basic VS 2005 Development Environmane Radically Slow
Posted by NormD at 1/26/2006 5:28:02 PM
This may be the wrong forum for my question but here it is: I can not determine if this is a VS2005 issue, XP-64 issue or if I just got a lemon machine. I am in the early stages of re-writing a Win32 app using WindowsForms and VB under VS2005 as a fat client app. I would guess that about 3%...more >>

Here's an oddity of memory usage
Posted by Dave at 1/25/2006 10:00:03 AM
I've been experimenting with the memory footprint of a windows app and I've come across some odd behaviour, which I'd appreciate some comments on from someone who knows about these things. Starting with a basic form app as generated by VS, with a single button - nothing in the button click ha...more >>

.Net Runtime Performance Question
Posted by ted at 1/23/2006 9:38:18 AM
I have a legacy app that launches a C# app. It takes a long time for it to launch the first time and after that it launches fine. I know it has to do with the .net runtime. Is there a way around this? This app uses 1.1 .net runtime. Thanks ...more >>

Performance with reading large numbers of files...
Posted by Mark Rochotte at 1/22/2006 6:24:19 PM
Hi All. I have a small test application (a condensation of the issue from a much larger application) that recurses a directory and adds all the file names to a string collection. The app then iterates over these names, opens the file, and reads the entire file (or the first 4Mb if greater ...more >>

How to detemine how long a computer has been idle???
Posted by Marlon R at 1/19/2006 4:13:55 PM
Can someone answer this question please: How to detemine how long (in a program) a computer has been idle? ...more >>

Destructor never called, why ??
Posted by eleazarm at 1/17/2006 10:48:12 PM
i have this code: in a click event: ... myControl c = new myControl(); c.Dispose(); c = null; ... in myControl: ... public myControl() : Control ... ~myControl() { //release object... //with a breakpoint to verify. } ... i fire the click event, and then call GC.Collect() b...more >>

Free Memory, Privates Bytes
Posted by eleazarm at 1/17/2006 5:24:42 PM
Hi everyone, i'm new here, i'm from chile (speak spanish) so, my englis is very basic. I have read every thread of manage memory, garbage collector destructor, constructor, and all that linked with memory usage an manage in c#. but, i just have one question i have a little application (window...more >>



Significant performance dropping of unsafe code in VS.NET 2005 Pro
Posted by Amos Zhang at 1/16/2006 9:20:59 PM
Hi all, Yesterday I got a copy of VS.NET 2005 from our department and tried it. Part of my project code is to read/write images to/from a byte array with unsafe code (which I found in MSDN knowledge base). The code ran well on VS.NET 2003, but the performance significantly dropped on 2005 p...more >>

Constant recompile problem
Posted by Mathieu Isabel at 1/16/2006 11:51:04 AM
I have a problem with ASP.Net 2.0 application that works fine for a while, then the application needs to recompile at every access to a page. I first noticed it by the application having a slow response time, then I did some basic monitoring and noticed that the w3wp and csc.exe processes used...more >>

Layers Architecture with remoting : DataSet or not DataSet?
Posted by Microsoft at 1/13/2006 7:25:36 PM
In a layers architecture (MVC), we have to choose a DTO(Data Transport Object) to communicate between our back( Business component) and front layer (presentation and coordination). There are two possibilities : Dataset or a specific class (Bean or Value Object or...). Both of them have advan...more >>

Chosing a Hetrogeneous Oracle/.Net stack
Posted by jack at 1/12/2006 8:48:31 PM
I am currently architecting .NET Application for an Enterpise Level client. The customer has a natural Oracle bias. I think that Oracle is a great DBMS too. Probably still better thatn SQL Server. Having said that I have a bias against hetrogenoeuous stacks (ie Oracle and .Net, SQL Server ...more >>

Excel VSTO Listobject control databinding performance problem
Posted by gianni at 1/10/2006 12:47:40 PM
Hi all, I have made a test with VSTO Excel databinding using listobject binded with a dataview. This dataview/datatable is created by my code and upadated in memory when I receive some notification via my mesage oriented middleware, to simulate update of some financial market data (esample: upda...more >>

PerformanceCounterInstaller & System.OutOfMemoryException
Posted by Ashkan Daie at 1/9/2006 2:43:57 PM
Hi All, When trying to install a performance counter via InstallUtil I get the following exception: Creating performance counter category Enterprise Library Caching. An exception occurred during the Install phase. System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryExceptio...more >>

Load balancer problem
Posted by Ido at 1/8/2006 2:26:43 PM
Hi all, I hope this is the right place for this question... I'm using Big-Ip as a load balancer. Below the Big-Ip are sitting several server applications. All .Net 1.1 using remoting and TCP protocol. When i load my applications i have the following problem: Connections stay sticked to their ...more >>

Paged-Pool And Non-Paged Pool Memory Leak
Posted by neal.m.shah NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 1/6/2006 7:13:30 AM
All, I've written a Windows Service that polls our database server every 10 seconds or so. It's running on multiple boxes and basically checks the database to see if that particular machine needs to perform a specific task. The application was written in .NET 1.1 and C#. The servers we ar...more >>

HttpWebRequest.GetResponse(); Performance issue
Posted by speed32 at 1/4/2006 8:55:01 PM
The performance of this call is very slow when it is called the first time within a program. ( 5 - 6 seconds ) However the second time I call this method is very fast. ( 10 - 40 ms ). It does not matter how long I wait between subsequent calls it is still fast. Specifics: Windows XP x64...more >>

Memory Release Problem
Posted by kurtulus at 1/4/2006 12:59:25 PM
Hi, I am working huge data. Sometimes, Mem usage is 400MB - 1 GB. I dispose all items. Memory is not released. If i press minimize button. Memory is released. Why? Or How can i release memory? Thanks, ...more >>

Application Start Performance
Posted by DylanM at 1/4/2006 6:41:04 AM
I've just released an early test version of a c# WinForms application for screen prototyping etc. The version is split into logical layers (GUI, Business, DAL etc) but is currently running from the same physical device. Users are running a thin client desktop under Citrix. This is the envir...more >>

Memory problems - WinDbg and SOS: Who recognizes this pattern?
Posted by vecozo NO[at]SPAM online.nospam at 1/4/2006 2:38:04 AM
Yesterday I posted a message about OutOfMemory exceptions in our production environment. [http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/managed/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.webservices.enhancements&mid=93a987c9-14e2-4fb2-9c59-1e47e87e49e9&sloc=en-us] Last night I managed to get a...more >>


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