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

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: ASP.NET, .NET, General, Community News, Architecture, 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

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

VSTS and VSTestHost.Exe - not on talking terms
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:02 PM

Thought I would install some optional updates to try and resolve some issues I was having with Vista and Visual Studio 2005. It seems I continually get the VSTestHost.exe has stopped unexpectedly error when trying to run any tests within Visual Studio. It seems there are not too many instances of this around as I can't find too much beyond simple fix suggestions... Read More...

by Glav | 2 comment(s)

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