I'm having a very very frustrating experience with the .NET. I've a simple
crawler console application.
The main objective of the crawler is to read a list of URLs and make HTTP
calls to a web server and save

I'm currently re-writing the GUI of my application to improve speed,
reduce memory consumption and startup time, and make it prettier.  I
currently embed msie to show a basic informational page.  But this
takes 9 meg of RAM and about 3 seconds to instantiate.  This is

I am working on a pure managed windows application that creates large
byte arrays at run time. In fact it creates a 50M byte array when the
application starts.
public static byte[] buffer = new byte[1024*1024*50];

My question is about memory leak in .NET. Let's say that i have  form that loads another form that contains a number of controls(eg datagrids). Form2 does nothing. No data are bound to controls. When i run the program i observe the memory usage in the taskbar and i can see that ...

I am testing these settings on IIS 6.0 and am finding that they are ignored
in their entirety.  Documentation that I have read seems to indicate that
these are the only process model settings which are followed.  Any ideas?
Chris

Running on a fast machine, if I issue a throw of a user defined exception, it's 6 seconds before the catch in the calling code is called.  I wrote an app with nothing but a throw/catch to make sure it wasn't some other problem.  This can't be normal.  Is there something I'm ...

How can I do memory and cpu profiling of WinForms running in a Browser?  All of the full-feature profiling tools I've looked at want an .exe

I have written a custom replacement for library function
Math.Pow(double x, double y) for the specific condition of y being
integer and >=0.  It is twice as fast as Math.Pow(), but I cannot get
the compiler to inline compile it. I've tried many different

is it possible to do processor specific optimizations when you're writing
code for .NET Framework? Or do you have to rely entirely on the clr?
Joachim

I wonder,  would assigning nulls to objects attract the GC to collect these
objects and free some memory.

Hallo. I started a solution in VS.NET with template for C# windwos
application. The solution has several projects:
-Artifacts
-BusinessRules

I am working on a windows application which will talk to the database
through the Web services.
So i need to enhaance the performance, for which i m using connection
pooling.