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Updates to the CacheAdapter Package
Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:12 PM

Note: This post was originally going to detail the changes from 2.0 to 2.1, however in between the time of release and this post, I released 2.2 so this post will detail all the changes up to 2.2. In the last update to my CacheAdapter library (you can view it here ), I mentioned the support for memcached cache engine. That brought the version to 2.0. As previously... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, CacheAdapter, Component, Performance

Diskeeper–a short review
Monday, May 16, 2011 9:23 AM

I have been lucky enough to be ASP.NET MVP for a number of years now. One of the perks of that is you get access to free licences of software such as Diskeeper . This piece of software keeps your disks running as smooth as they possibly can. I have been using Diskeeper for around 2 months now and am pretty impressed. It silently does its thing in the background... Read More...

by Glav | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Community News, Performance

.Net Performance Testing and Optimisation – Free eBook
Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:43 AM

This blog has been super quiet lately. This is mainly because I have been hard at work writing a book around .Net Performance Testing and optimisation. Well, I am happy to say that part 1 of this book is available as a free download from here . The full book will follow shortly and will contain concrete examples of popular performance issues in .Net applications... Read More...

by Glav | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, General, Performance, Visual Studio

Sample chapter from upcoming book
Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:59 PM

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... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, Community News, General, Performance

Getting better performance in web apps with a few lines of script
Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:53 PM

We had a situation where a web application was utilising near 100% of CPU all the time under light load and it was proving very hard to reduce this significantly through code optimisation. We were performance testing and profiling, but only seeing marginal gains. The infrastructure that was hosting the web application was as follows: Virtual Server (Hosted via... Read More...

by Glav | 9 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS, Performance

Regaining results from a performance test run
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:48 PM

I have been doing a lot of performance testing lately, and one of the worst things that can happen during a performance run, is when you don’t get any results. Performance testing is expensive, from a time and resources perspective, so getting results from a run is paramount. In my scenario, I have everything automated to kick off a performance run, at 7.00pm... Read More...

by Glav | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, debugging, General, Performance

VSTS 2008, Web Tests and using Fiddler
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:04 PM

I have been doing some performance and load testing of a web application I have been working on lately. Most of my previous experience was with the 2005 flavour of VSTS and I was keen to play with the 2008 version to see what improvements have been made. This web application is quite heavy in terms of Javascript and AJAX feature usage. I am happy to report that... Read More...

by Glav | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, AJAX, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Performance, Visual Studio, Web 2.0

Profiling your AJAX Applications using AjaxView
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:35 PM

Don't know if this has already been discussed at length before, but I found an interesting little tool from Microsoft Research for profiling the Javascript functionality in your AJAX applications. Its called AjaxView and can remotely monitor any AJAX web app that is currently on the web, locally or whatever. You basically, install a small proxy application, then... Read More...

by Glav | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, AJAX, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, debugging, Performance, Web 2.0

Visual Studio 2008 Team Test Issues
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:15 PM

I have had ongoing problems getting various tests to work using my installation of VS2008 Team Suite. Initially, I had a problem running unit tests (see here), then sometime after that, I had other niggling issues with code coverage and had to copy assemblies from Private folders to public folders and vice versa. Recently, I tried recording some web tests so... Read More...

by Glav | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, Performance, Vista, Visual Studio

Obscure ASP.NET Problem - AJAX Control Toolkit, CollapsiblePanelExtender, Image controls pages loading more than once....
Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:05 PM

Had an issue on a current project where a page was being loaded twice for each request, although it was a little different for each browser. Under IE, this particular page was loaded, then the 'Default.aspx' page in the same directory was loaded. In Firefox, the same page was loaded twice. This was verified by simply placing breakpoints in the Page_Load events... Read More...

by Glav | 25 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, AJAX, AJAX Control toolkit, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Control Toolkit, General, Performance, Visual Studio, Web 2.0

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