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• Speeding up your Desktop Build [Part 1]

  On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Read More... Posted 09 May 2009 16:36 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Engineering Practices, Visual Studio, CodePlex, Performance, Microsoft, MSBuild, BDD

• Speed up PowerShell

  Jeffrey Snover just dropped this little gem into the " PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services " PDC session. Essentially there is an issue with the declarative nature of PowerShell's internals and how .NET Ngen's assemblies - which resulted in the Read More... Posted 30 October 2008 17:06 by howard.vanrooijen | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Performance

• PDC08 - Pre-Conference Sessions: Performance by Design using the .NET Framework - Part 3

  Memory Optimization in .NET When Memory Affects Time If your computation is not local, memory matters Cold start up: at first all code is from disk Disk can transfer at best 50mb/sec, worst 1meg/sec However OS caches disc (thus only new code is bad) Sluggishness Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 14:50 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC08, Performance

• PDC08 - Pre-Conference Sessions: Performance by Design using the .NET Framework - Part 2

  CPU Optimisation for .NET applications The second part of the pre-conference session was taken by Vance Morrison , a Performance Architect at Microsoft. How to Measure Low Tech: Stopwatch Medium Tech: Measure it Medium Tech: Event Tracing for Windows Read More... Posted 26 October 2008 21:06 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC08, Performance