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How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

Optimizing ASP.NET MVC performance

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:46:03 GMT

Slides on how to optimize ASP.NET MVC application to get reasonable performance out of it.

Cheap way of speeding up Visual Studio I/O

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Visual Studio loves file I/O. It really, really does, and it cares very little about caching and the like. What this means is that, when you open a solution file, it always reads it from disk. Which means that the speed of operation when generating lots of files (e.g., via T4 transformations) is typically atrocious. The fact that file I/O in VS does not appear to be multithreaded is another hindrance. In short, it's a mess.

WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:16:03 GMT

A nice article on the MVVM pattern for WPF.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

Skip the Visual Studio Splash Screen

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:16:03 GMT

Anything to speed up Visual Studio.

Self Installing Windows Service

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:31:12 GMT

Reusable class that can be added to a Windows Service project to enable Install, Uninstall, Start and Stop functionality.

When Should I Write Tests?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:46:03 GMT

The definitive answer to a question that comes up all the time...

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:01:14 GMT

jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

Yet another Singleton Yada-Yada

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:01:04 GMT

Using a static-constructor in a singleton, affects it's laziness. Here's a generic singleton that is thread-safe using a static-constructor, and still lazy.

Pimp My Debugger - DebuggerDisplay Attribute

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:46:10 GMT

The other day I was reading some friends code, and I saw that he used a DebuggerDisplay attribute. It allows you to create a custom view of your objects in the Visual studio debugger. This attribute is very straight forward, but very powerful in the amount of time it can save you when debugging your application. I'll show you a cookie cutter example, but you can use your imagination as to how to use this particular attribute.

Creating Temporary Passwords - Bring in da' Func<T>

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:31:06 GMT

Using Func<T> to generate random passwords

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Peter discusses how to get your use of Visual Studio to the next level.

Extension Methods + Attributes = A Whole New World!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:31:02 GMT

A post about combining attributes and extension methods in order to extend current code.

Lambdas

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

Stop Polluting the UI Thread - Use a ThreadBarrier

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:01:10 GMT

A ThreadBarrier is a technique for simplifying the interaction between the UI and a worker thread. No longer do UI Controls need to check InvokeRequired and do the posting of events from a worker thread.

Give way to the yield keyword!

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:31:02 GMT

A brief description of what you can do with the yield keyword.

Give Your ASP.NET Applications Velocity

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:16:03 GMT

Scaling ASP.NET Application just got easier with a new technology that Microsoft has just released that they have dubbed codename "Velocity". This product is still in the early stages of development, but it is meant as a direct competitor against memcache.

Test Driven Development Naming Conventions and Guidelines

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:31:12 GMT

New TDD and experienced TDD developers will find this list of naming conventions and guidelines useful.

Try-catching in a single line of code

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:01:07 GMT

Just another silly extension method hack :)

LessThanDot? - Mark Smith

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:01:18 GMT

Mark Smith talks about a new IT community site (named LessThanDot) aimed at providing forums, wikis and blogs for the community to discuss ideas, share knowledge and learn from the experts.

Text OCR via Image Selection Application

Fri, 16 May 2008 03:16:02 GMT

The heart of this app is our DocumentViewer control that acts as a document image browser. It provides a thumbnail view and an image selection tool. From there, one can grab a section of the image and hand it off to the Tesseract OCR engine and see the results. The resulting text is dropped onto the clipboard for pasting into another application

String Format - Made Simple

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:16:04 GMT

A Silverlight tool for discovering the correct format strings for string.Format() calls