I need to stress test an application I've developed - are there any libraries/classes that can do things such as limit RAM available, Disk Space, etc. to help determine the system limits? Since I'm developing on a higher end system, I hope that there are either commerical or free utilities ...more >>

Still struggling with this problem, when ever im operating on an opened window, be it typing or watching a film, the screen will lose its priority after five to ten seconds and ill have to click back on to it to proceed at whatever im at and this will be consistant through out. Any advice wou...more >>

Note: I sincerely welcome and appreciate any input from outsiders and MVPs but I'm ultimately hoping for a MSFT response. Any concrete citations (white pages, msdn pages, books, msdn blogs etc) are hugely appreciated. As I understand it - Intel cores have a single 'hardware' thread, 2 thr...more >>

Hi, The subject says it all... I want to use a byte[] and use it as byte* so I can increment the pointer to iterate through it. What is the fastest way of doing so in C#? Thanks ThunderMusic ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering what the performance of a filtering operation on a dataset could be? For small set of data, it's ok, but what if I filter, let's say, 50 M rows? I'm asking because I was wondering if it could be faster to filter data in ..Net that in a SQL query? In a SQL query, it co...more >>

I'm looking for a way to increase my mouse pointer speed. I know about the setting in control panel. The slider is already at max. But is there another way to increase the speed even further? a Registry entry or special driver perhaps? I'm using a typical usb optical mouse. Anyone else out ...more >>

I have run 6-7 heavy reports one by one, then aspnet_wp.exe takes high volume of memory usage and it works very slow. It does not release memmory Even I close all the browser. ...more >>

I should say that the program that I am trying to log information for is written for version 1.1 of the .Net Framework. Cheers John...more >>

Hi All I'm sorry If I'm asking wrong place but like to know the following As part of feedback my application get information like machine name, domain name, username in the feedback mail. Is it legal? Can anyone show me direction regarding the same? -- Regards, Debasish Pramanik ...more >>

Hi all I am having problem using perfmon to record to a log file the .Net CLR memory data. I am trying this on two machines (both XP SP2) and it doesn’t work on either, although with different results. Here is the process: *Launch Perfmon and select “Counter Logs” *Create a log ...more >>

Since Microsoft automatically updating my system, the cpu usage reached 100% most of time. After seeking for help from several forums, I downloaded UPHClean from Windows update site and it seemed working well. however, when I used "Search" trying to find some files, CPU usage reached 100% agai...more >>

Hi, I am benchmarking our server now. Scenario: 5 clients, 1000 data entities distributed to them per second, 141K around 700K per second. Clients sit on the same LAN as server, all on separate computers. I have two different implementations: A) Reads are done asynchronously, using BeginR...more >>