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There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup a performance test rig using Visual Studio, how to record, manage and analyse performance metrics, and what you can change to make your apps fly. Anyways, the sample chapter is located here . ( http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/performance/understanding-performance-profiling-targets/ ) Hope you like it. Read More...

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect working on complex BizTalk deployments you MUST attend Uri's session . In order to keep things in perspective, Uri has prepared a series of interesting demos that illustrate the techniques used to improve the development and management experience...( read more ) Read More...

Microsoft has released a final version of its book “ Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition ”. The book is described as: This guide is available online here in the MSDN Library and will be available in the Fall of 2009 as a Microsoft Press book, ISBN# 9780735627109, that you can purchase through local and online booksellers. The guide is intended to help developers and solution architects design and build effective, high quality applications using the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework more quickly and with less risk; it provides guidance for using architecture principles, design principles, and patterns that are tried and trusted. The guidance is presented in sections that correspond to major architecture and design focus...

My new article, which I've been preparing over the last few months, is now available. It's about memory and resources leaks in .NET . You'll find it in English on MSDN and in French on DotNetGuru.org . It's also available in PDF in English and in French . Here is the table of content: Introduction Leaks? Resources? What do you mean? How to detect leaks and find the leaking resources Common memory leak causes Common memory leaks causes demonstrated How to avoid leaks Tools Conclusion Resources Despite what a lot of people believe, it's easy to introduce memory and resources leaks in .NET applications. The Garbage Collector, or GC for close friends, is not a magician who would completely relieve you from taking care of your...

My friend and colleague Uri Katzir just joined the blogosphere. Uri is a BizTalk wizard who is currently working on one of the biggest BizTalk implementations in the world. We are extremely proud to have him as part of our technical staff at Tellago . Uri has already posted a couple of interesting write-ups about ESB itineraries troubleshooting and deployment techniques....( read more ) Read More...

While the release of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is getting all of the attention this week, version 2.0 of the Microsoft Sync Framework was also released this week and can be downloaded from here ....( read more ) Read More...

As the WCF team already announced, the first chapter of the WCF Extensibility Guidance is now available on MSDN . This paper is the result of an effort I started a few months ago with my colleague and friend Pablo Cibraro . Our goal was to provide a detailed guidance of the major extensibility points of the WCF runtime. In that sense, we decided to cover major areas of the WCF extensibility programming model such as channels, client-dispatcher, security, hosting, metadata, RESTful service and even...( read more ) Read More...

The first meeting of the Sydney Architecture User Group is going to be held on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, form 6.00pm to 8.00pm, at the Grace Hotel , 77 York st, Sydney. ( Link to map ) It will be housed in one of the very nice function rooms they have. Food and drink will be provided. Omar Besiso and myself will be hosting the event, with all funding and sponsorship graciously provided by our company Datacom . We intend on having a proper site to provide RSS feeds, email subscription and the like, but until we get better organised, we have a facebook page at : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173036810551 or you can contact myself directly on paul.glavich AT datacom.com.au or you can contact Omar on omar.besiso AT datacom.com.au Note...

Today (technically yesterday, since it’s 3:26 AM already while I’m starting this), Mr. Adam Mohamed Meligy finally arrived home, after staying 9.5 days in nursery. This –dear audience- given Mr. Adam arrived to our world only in October 5, 2009, a date that the entire world will (sooner or later) always remember! Mr. Adam is now taking a personal cover, pretending to be a normal baby, while he is pretty professional, he cannot sometimes hide his special natures, being relatively quiet compared to normal babies, and highly responsive to touches and (believe it or not) spoken notes/requests. These are things that the world will remember once Mr. Adam finishes his first big achievement in the field he will take up for living (God Willing). Some...

In a previous post we explained the programming model of Microsoft's StreamInsight adapter framework. The fundamental capability of this framework is to streamline the flow of events in and out of the StreamInsight hosting application. One of the main advantages of this model is that enables developers to create their own adapters that can be leveraged on StreamInsight-based solutions. On this post we will explore the details of implementing an RSS/Atom adapter using StreamInsight's adapter framework...( read more ) Read More...