Blog Article On a recent project we had the requirement to produce a web application as part of the main deliverable, but also to provide a services layer or implementation, that will allow external clients within the same organization to interact with the underlying system. The underlying system is...

Not long ago, I posted about WCF client performance and some work I have been doing around improving that with a "Channel Pool" type implementation. Well its finally ready for some public consumption. You can grab the code here . ( http://www.theglavs.com/DownloadItem.aspx?FileID=55 ) You can grab the...

One of the easiest performance traps when using WCF services is constant creation of new client proxies when accessing those services. In WSE land, this was common place: MyProxy prox = new MyProxy(); prox.CallServiceMethod(); For example, you might have a class with some instance methods, and in each...

Recently, I had been asked to examine a situation where WSE V3 service calls were substantially quicker than the equivalent WCF version. The reason in this instance was the fact that the WCF proxy was being created for each and every service call made (which was also the case with WSE V3). WCF proxies...

Having recently completed a large website implementation for a well respected not-for-profit organisation, I learnt several lessons and want share some of my experiences. While it seems obvious that we should be ensuring our code is optimised (right? :-/), there are some factors that are "factory-set...

There are some simple configuration changes that you can make on machine.config and IIS to give your web applications significant performance boost. These are simple harmless changes but makes a lot of difference in terms of scalability. By tweaking system.net changes, you can increase the number of...

Below a list of interesting links that I found this week: Interaction: Fingers are Bigger than Mice - Design Concepts for Mobile Websites 20 Essential Tools and Tips to an Accessible Website Frontend: Don’t Forget About HTML5’s “Little Guys” Development: 10 Differences Between WCF and ASP.NET Web Services...

Here’s the recent presentation made on LIDNUG on scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users. Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users by Omar AL Zabir Here’re the slides. Scaling asp.net websites to millions of users