Currently I am building an application to access the data
from the Active Directory (Directory Service) using C#. I
find that it is rather unstable. Out of 10 times of data
accessing, 2 times the application has problem getting the

First of all, I'm very new at .NET, in fact, just learning the differences
for an application rewrite that we are about to undertake.  But I do have
experience in VB6, C++ and the Java languages and find that I am catching on
fairly quickly.

What tool exist in vb.net to do performance monitoring of
a web site, like conters, logs and how to use them.
Many thanks.
Leo

I'm experiencing some truly shocking performance from Regex. Seeing as I
have next to no idea what I'm doing with Regex, I'm sure I must be doing
something wrong.
The basic gist of what I'm writing is something that scans text for any in a

OK,  have I come full circle....  ?
1) .NET with VS Studio seemed to be the answer to all my prayers.
   A) No more worries about coding for Netscape vs. IE.
   B) Quick Deployment

We have an app that computes a lot of numeric data. We would like to save to
disk about 1-2 gigabytes of computed data that includes ints, doubles,
strings and some complex objects that contain hashtables. We would like to
read this data back into the app and reuse those values and ...

Hello,
We have an application that is causing asp.net deadlock
when running under stress tests.
Here is what's happening, I am running a stress test using

I am developing a application and I think I have a memory
leak, but I am not sure.  What I do know it that if I open
and close my window for about 15 minutes I run out of
memory and my software crashes.  I am not a happy camper.

We are using the enterprise instrumentation framework, but now we're getting
the following error : "Custom counters file view is out of memory"
Anyone an idea ?
Peter

I have a small "container" class that contains few private fields and
accessor properties for each field. Each accessor property simply returns
the corresponding field or sets the field value, nothing else.
This container class (or actually there are multiple instances) is accessed

I hope this is the right area for this post.  After the computer  screen
saver goes on and you go to reactivate the system it always reads that I
have 5 unread email and their could be any number or none.  Is their a way
to reset that value?   The number of running programs is not a ...

What is the best way to cast fields of a datareader to the correct type?
a) msg.Label = CType(reader("Label"), String)
b) msg.Label = reader.GetString(2)
c) msg.Label = DirectCast(reader("Label"), String)

I'm facing a code-optimisation issue on an asp.net/vb.net/SQL Server 2000
project.  A web page containing not much more than 3 DropDownLists is taking
nigh on 6 seconds to load, because each ddl opens up a separate connection
to the DB, pulls out its data, and closes its own ...

In java we assign null to an unused abject in order to
make it available for garbage collection as soon as we do
not need it. This may not much increase the performance
but some improve it. (note that: I know garbage collector

I had created a Windows Application that used Crystal Reports. Now, I am
creating a web application as a second phase of my project. I want to reuse
all my Crystal Reports in my Web Application. I am not sure how to go about
doing this. Can someone please suggest a way to solve the ...