Hi, I have .NET assemblies compiled in VSS2005 as a debug build. If I use ngen.exe on these files do I have to give "/debug" flag for the native image generation to do any good or is that not related. Is the "/debug" flag only important if I execute with a debugger? Will I get the "possible...more >>

i have a visual studio 6 compiled application that can no longer load because ..NET 2.0.50727 aspnet_perf.dll is trying to load msvcrt80.dll. This is happening when i load WMI and am trying to query some (non-performance and non-.NET related) values. How can i prevent this from occuring? I ...more >>

I'm experiencing very weird problem. Once in several days the server gets frozen for about 6 minutes!!. I don't think this is deadlock and I'm almost confident that threads are paused (by GC?), because there is thread pool based timer which doesn't fire for the same amount of time (Server use...more >>

I'm sure this isn't the best place to put this, but I don’t know of another place where I'll get performance people to see it. I'm wanting to try and put together a Seattle (and surrounding areas) Software Performance User Group. Basically a way for us Performance folks to get together a...more >>

Which code is really better in term of performance, A or B? A) list_of_strings[0] == "" B) list_of_strings[0].Length.Equals(0)...more >>

I have an application that has already been built for financial industry. Different developers have worked on it, that's why it has performance issues in it. I have to evaluate it and then bring up with my suggestions. There are different ways to do it: - Execute profiling tools like ANTS, ...more >>

Different performance showing a Form on a Development client and a "normal" client. Question 1: I created a dialog (a simple AboutBox) in .NET and display the dialog in Microsoft Word through a Word AddIn. On my development system the dialog is displayed much faster then on a "normal" client ...more >>

In our .Net 2.0 web service we need to insert/update data records into SQL Server 2005 that have been uploaded to us in XML documents. There could be anywhere from one to literally thousands of records in each uploaded transaction, and there are several dozen destination tables. Since performa...more >>

My computer experienced a hard shut down on 3/1 during a power outage. When I turned the computer back, a message appeared stating "memory dump". Spypot intercepted this action and gave me the opportunity to deny or allow. I really don't know my computer was trying to do and I'm concerned t...more >>