Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability (Patterns & Practices) (Paperback)

by Microsoft Corporation (Author)

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Product Description
Integrate proven performance and scalability techniques throughout the .NET application life cycle—and gain an edge in building better-performing products. This guide presents a robust framework organized by task and role, helping developers, architects, testers, and administrators prioritize and implement the best options at the appropriate time. It offers focused, end-to-end guidance?including processes for modeling performance and techniques for measuring, testing, and fine-tuning your applications. You’ll also get tips direct from Microsoft development teams for improving the performance and scalability of managed code; Microsoft ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and SQL Server; Web services; .NET Remoting; XML; and more. The book features a "How To" section that details the steps for a number of specific performance-related tasks, such as adding performance counters and using the common language runtime (CLR) profiler. PATTERNS & PRACTICES guides are reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, partners, and customers?delivering accurate, real-world information that’s been technically validated and tested.

About the Author
Microsoft PATTERNS & PRACTICES technical guidance is reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, and Product Support Services, and by partners and customers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1152 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (July 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735618518
• ISBN-13: 978-0735618510
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #596,000 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have to any enterprise developer, July 22, 2004

By	John W. Conwell - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In a word...WOW! There is such a wealth of info in this book. Direct for the source, one of the performance architects of the CLR (among other authors). This book is a must have for any developer who writes high use web apps or web services. The book goes into so much detail, and explains why one coding method is more efficient than another. Probably not a good beginner book, you should have a good grasp on .Net development first.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have, August 22, 2005

By	Indrikov Vadim - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To be honest, I hate two kilos books. Usually such a book contains not much information. But not this book.
It starts from design guidelines and 40-pages(!) length questionnaire, and covers in detail a lot of subjects, including CLR, interop, remoting, ASP, XML, Web Services, etc. performance. How to measure, how to test, how to tune.
If you have to know a lot of things about a lot of things concerned with .NET performance, this book is for you.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars simply great, March 13, 2005

By	Pagliei Carlo "paco" (Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A great book that covers in detail any areas you need: CLR, strings management, collections, asp.net, ado.net, xml, SQL Server and much more. A practical handbook that should be on your desktop as a reference for you everyday programming.
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