I have an application that references about 40 assemblies
(approx 80MB in total). I've installed the application on
the network share and given a client PC full trust access.
When I launch the application from the network it takes

I have been investigating the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation
Framework as a flexible logging solution for our software. In addition
to logging, we need to have performance counters for ongoing
monitoring by the operations staff. It seems to me that performance

 How can I monitor the regrowing and shrinking of the Queue type? I only
have .Count visible as public.
 I need to be able to determine the dequeing rate or the intiial size of
this as I would rather it "not" grow in size.

 Would it be good if we could see the actual current size (not the amount
of queue items contained in this collection) as a property get?
Thanks.

Quick Question:
StringBuilder is obviously more efficient dealing with string concatenations
than the old '+=' method... however, in dealing with relatively large string
concatenations (ie, 20-30k), what are the performance differences (if any

I'm investigating using ngen for precompiling some of our mixed mode
assemblies.  I noticed that 'ngen /show' gives me a list of microsoft
assemblies which have been ngen'd.  However, some that I care about
(system.data, etc.) are not ngen'd.  Any harm in running ngen on these?

Do they affect performance of an app?

I've to run .net applications on a low power machine (366mhz and 96mb ram!).
Unfortunately this application needs about 23 seconds to startup, which
isn't acceptable. The app uses a custom library which in turn uses DirectX9
managed extensions.

Hi all,
I didnot know where to post this question so if this is
not the right place do guide me.
I have a windows service ( winServ1) written for my