Hoping someone can provide some insight or alternatives on this issue. We make heavy use of a 3rd party data provider to obtain quote data for a commercial web application. We obtain the data via the function shown below basically using HttpWebRequest. We are having performance issues a...more >>

hi, i need to know the size of an image without reading the whole file. any ideas where to start? i assume some p/invoke would be needed :/ i need this because loading whole images into memory takes lots of time. and when you have lets say 300 of them, 6Mpix each it may take ages....more >>

Hi All, Am dealing with some .net socket applications. My 1st query is when should we see this "NET CLR Networking" performance object available on a system, i mean after installing which component of .net., for both 32x and 64x systems. If I ran one c# socket application(server client),...more >>

I have a CLR function thet returns IEnumberable (a table) and it has a FillRow function. I am returning 10,000 integers from this function. Is there any way that I can preallocate the resulting table or give SQL server hint as to how many rows my function will return? It makes me cringe to t...more >>

Is it possible to detect whether an application is started on a regular computer (xp, vista, etc.) or through terminal services? Basically, we would like to prevent users from starting our application through terminal services. Thanks for any answers and/or ideas. BR, GAZ ...more >>

why do the gadgets (outside its gadget bar) move around on the screen each diffrent boot up. or switch its place (inside the gadget bar) from top to bottom? or is this a image of my imagenation!!!!!!!!...more >>

Hi there! One of our customers experiences a big delay on the start of our WinForms application. By adding additional tracing I identified that there are actually two places where delay occurs. The first delay is exactly 30 seconds. It happens after the method Application.Run is called and be...more >>

We are experiencing OutOfMemoryException on our Production web server(s) when requests been made for certain PDF document download(s). Production web server(s) (we have 2 such servers load balanced in round robin fashion) each have 4 Processors running on windows 2003. I tried to memory optim...more >>

Hi I am new to performance and security testing, so could anyone out there suggest me the best tool that's available for testing performance and also security of a .net web application. Thanks in advance Regards, Akhilesh U ...more >>