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DataCore's Storage Virtualization Software Is Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, May 14, 2008

DataCore Software announced that its two storage virtualization solutions, SANsymphony and SANmelody, have been verified as Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1 as virtual SAN appliances running on XenServe...

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques

Steven Smith, May 14, 2008

Last night I presented at the Cleveland .NET SIG on Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques, which is a talk I'll be giving in a few weeks at Tech:Ed Developers in Orlando.  I was asked a coup...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and Performance

The ASPx Blog, May 13, 2008

Last Friday, Microsoft released a beta of the upcoming Visual Studio Service Pack 1. Check out Scott Guthrie's post for a list of improvements and features included in the service pack. You can al...

Looking over the developers' shoulders. -ANTS Performance Profiler 4

Simple Talk, May 12, 2008

You can get your hands on a very early, very rough version of ANTS Performance Profiler 4. Its not a beta, its not beta quality, it really is a just a development build. So if youre feeling brave you ...

db4o Open Source Object-Oriented Database Supports LINQ

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, May 12, 2008

db4objects has announced that its db4o object database is now optimized for Microsoft's LINQ. With the new support, developers can choose an object-oriented optimized engine without changing the API o...

Net Performance Cribsheet

Simple Talk, May 11, 2008

Robyn and Phil tackle the topic of how to make .NET applications perform well. As usual, they try to take a terse, practical approach to the mysteries of JIT, CLR and GC. After giving many performance...

NUnitForms GenericControlTester

<Rolog>, May 1, 2008

In a Windows forms test project using NUnitForms, I was trying to test some DevExpress controls, so I came up with the GenericControlTester for this. It can test any control as long as it inherits Sys...

Unit Testing Denial Pattern #1: Pretending the test is no longer valid

ISerializable, April 30, 2008

Today was both a good day for e and a bad day for me. Good day because I managed to get a full suite of tests that were somehow failing to work again after a refactoring that got out of hand. Bad - be...

Pros and Cons and of using an Auto Mocking container in your tests

ISerializable, April 25, 2008

In regards to my post about injecting mocks and stubs using a container in your tests, Dave asks in the comments: Why would you want to do this in the first place? Here are the things I can think abo...

Locating the active item in the solution explorer

eXtensible mind, April 23, 2008

Say you are working with a code file. At some point, you ""Go To Definition"" of another type, and now you have its code file opened. Or maybe you just run the solution to debug a weird issue that...

SharePoint limits

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, April 20, 2008

Most of the limits in SharePoint are soft limits. In other words, you may exceed the limits, but in most cases you will see significant performance degradation. Some of the ...

Locating the active item in the solution explorer

eXtensible mind, April 18, 2008

Say you are working with a code file. At some point, you ""Go To Definition"" of another type, and now you have its code file opened. Or maybe you just run the solution to debug a weird issue that...

Creating a AutoMockingContainer with Microsoft Unity - Pretty darn simple.

ISerializable, April 14, 2008

Just created a little Auto Mocking Container built on Microsoft Unity. It was very very simple. here's a test that uses it. We tell the container to RegisterMockSingleton becuase we will want whoever...

Smart String Concatenation

Technology and Programming - Speednets Lottery Post Blog, April 4, 2008

Whether on a individual computer or a server attached to the Internet someplace, people are always looking for better performance of their software. The first thought that comes to mind is often addi...

Data Warehousing Resources

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, April 1, 2008

I've had a few requests lately for resources I've used related to data warehouse design and performance tips for SSAS and SSRS for SQL Server 2005.  I thought if a few people are interest...

Reduce Code and Server Roundtrips

FTPOnline .NET Channel, April 1, 2008

Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance....

What's Wrong With This Code (#19)

K. Scott Allen, March 31, 2008

Leroy was shocked when the source code appeared. It was familiar yet strange, like an old lover's kiss. The code was five years old an artifact of Leroy's first project. Leroy slowly scrolled through...

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Find Index Fragmentation Details - Slow Index Performance

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, March 27, 2008

Just a day ago, while using one index I was not able to get the desired performance from the table where it was applied. I just looked for its fragmentation and found it was heavily fragmented. After ...

Using Explicit Casting to Display Data

DevX: .NET Feed, March 24, 2008

Explicit casting offers better performance while avoiding the cost of reflection....

Hotfix available for VB performance issue in VS2008 (DJ Park)

The Visual Basic Team, March 23, 2008

I wanted to let you know about a hotfix we recently released that may help solve some performance issues you may have run into using Visual Studio 2008.    Details The hotfix is a 3.98...

Skinning survey

the telerik blogs, March 19, 2008

With design and User Experience fast gathering momentum as the leading factors behind the success or failure of IT projects, we're continuing efforts here at telerik to make sure the RadControls suite...

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Analysis Services Query Performance Top 10 Best Practices

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, March 18, 2008

Analysis Services Query Performance Top 10 Best PracticesOptimize cube and measure group designDefine effective aggregationsUse partitionsWrite efficient MDXUse the query engine cache efficientlyEnsur...

CPUSS: Using the SJF Expert Rule

Granville Barnett, March 12, 2008

The SJF Expert Rule strategy is designed to elevate the priority of large processes based on a precondition defined by the user, that basically says if the current % of processes in the ready queue is...

On Beyond Unit Testing

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, March 10, 2008

Quetzal Bradley is a software development engineer (SDE) on my team with *tons* of experience in all manner of infrastructure stuff including the requirements of real-world software testing from the t...

Code Free Composites - Where SOA and Mashups Converge

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, March 6, 2008

Agility comes from releasing pockets of innovation that exists within organizations. To make this happen, the right people in the right places need the right information at the right time. What if I w...

Enterprise 2.0 and IT: How to Maximize Benefits for Your Enterprise

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 6, 2008

Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 have brought IT organizations a set of capabilities to better meet the demands of business users. However, IT needs to be proactive and build processes to enable agility and...

Code Free Composites - Where SOA and Mashups Converge

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 6, 2008

Agility comes from releasing pockets of innovation that exists within organizations. To make this happen, the right people in the right places need the right information at the right time. What if I w...

The Performance Paradigm of a Mashup World

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, March 6, 2008

The enterprise Web ecosystem is becoming increasingly complex, comprised of multiple disparate partner sites, data sources and Web services - all of which make up the new mashup world. And while the m...

MIX08 Keynote Announcements

The Moth, March 5, 2008

If you missed the keynote (live in Vegas or online), Tim Sneath was updating his blog live for it so you can read an outline here.- You already know about ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 form my previous blog p...

Geoff Tudor's RIA Session at AJAXWorld, March 18-20, in New York City

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, March 5, 2008

Fueled by the explosive growth in digital media and user generated content, the demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures a...

Active Purchase - DotNetNuke Module Review

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke, March 4, 2008

This is an independent review of the Active Purchase module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money. Active Modules says: ...

Active Purchase - DotNetNuke Module Review

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke, March 4, 2008

This is an independent review of the Active Purchase module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money. Active Modules says: ...

Load and display page contents asynchronously with full postback support

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 28, 2008

An AJAX UpdatePanel with less communication overhead and better performance...

SQL SERVER - SELECT 1 vs SELECT * - An Interesting Observation

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, February 26, 2008

Many times I have seen issue of SELECT 1 vs SELECT * discussed in terms of performance or readability while checking for existence of rows in table. I ran quick 4 tests about this observed that I am g...

TcpTransports Buffer Management in WCF

kennyw.com, February 18, 2008

I’ve gotten some questions recently about how our net.tcp transport functions at the memory allocation level. While at its core this is simply an “implementation detail”, this information can be very ...

How Should You Decide Which RIA Platform To Choose?

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, February 18, 2008

'Which RIA platform to choose? Whichever one can deliver the best functionality combined with industrial-strength reliability, performance, and scalability will win the race.' That, in the view of Ber...

ADO.NET Connection Pooling at a Glance

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 18, 2008

Connection pooling can increase the performance of any application by using active connections of the pool for consecutive requests, rather than creating a new connection each time.And at the same tim...

Applying Vista SP1 caused VS 2008 compiles to fail (includes fix)

Technology and Programming - Speednets Lottery Post Blog, February 15, 2008

Being a Microsoft Developer Network subscriber, yesterday I was able to get my hands on the new Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), which includes hoards of fixes and performance tweaks.The install went well,...

SQL SERVER - Introduction to Performance Monitor - How to Use Perfmon

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, February 14, 2008

Yesterday I wrote about SQL SERVER - Introduction to Three Important Performance Counters. I received few questions about how to use Perfmon. Here is very brief introduction to Perfmon.There are three...

SQL SERVER - Introduction to Three Important Performance Counters

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, February 13, 2008

Performance Counters are very important to evaluate. There are more than thousands of Performance Counters. Today I will cover three basic but very important Performance Counters.Processor:% Processor...

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Find Unused Indexes of Current Database

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, February 11, 2008

Simple but accurate following script will give you list of all the indexes in the database which are unused. If indexes are not used they should be dropped as Indexes reduces the performance for INSER...

RadListBox & RadComboBox for WinForms get a performance boost in Q3 2007 SP1

the telerik blogs, February 11, 2008

Last Friday weannouncedthe availability of the first service pack of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2007. As always, the service pack fixesmany issuesthat have been reported to Telerik since the Q3 2007 ...

First make it right. Then make it fast.

Jeffrey Palermo, February 11, 2008

To subscribe to my feed, add the following Url:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeffreypalermo. I spent the first part of my career on the side of the fence where I want to make it fast first. ...

Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Released! Performance and Editor fixes

The ASPx Blog, February 11, 2008

Microsoft has just released the hotfix (KB946581) that many of you have been waiting for. It fixes a number items including the issues mentioned in a previous post. I know from emails that they've...

Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Rollup

Peter Brombergs UnBlog, February 9, 2008

This Hotfix rollup addresses a number of issues and is a good example of how Scott Guthrie and his crew are able to nimbly respond to various issues and push out easy-to-install updates that fix vario...

The Lounge Updates

.Avery Blog, February 8, 2008

I have been working hard since taking over The Lounge back in December and wanted to share a couple of updates. It has definitely been a change for me to work on The Lounge, I haven't been in a sales ...

Novell Hack Week

Poupous blog, February 7, 2008

Next week is the second Novell Hack Week. This time I'll be hacking on Gendarme to add some stuff we've been talking for so long.I'm glad that Nestor has completed his exams and back hacking, at full ...

[New Article] 7 ways to do Performance Optimization of an ASP.NET 3.5 Web 2.0 portal

Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery, February 5, 2008

Web 2.0 applications are widely developed. These applications often work with third party contents, aggregate them, make various use of them and then make something useful and meaningful to the users....

Research Supports The Effectiveness of TDD

youve been HAACKED, January 22, 2008

In a recent post, Frans Bouma laments the lack of computer science or reference to research papers by agile pundits in various mailing lists (I bet this really applies to nearly all mailing lists, not...

The DBMS vs. Map/Reduce - is that really a competition?

Cirrus Minor, January 19, 2008

David DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker write about MapReduce in "The Database Column". Now I usually like what Michael Stonebraker writes (e.g. his piece on the RDBMS demise which I also wrote abou...

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