I am using Windows 2003 Server. The VPN works fine, but I want to FTP
through the VPN so the connection is encrypted.  The problem is each of my
IIS sites has a real Internet address specified, w.x.y.z.  So when the VPN
comes up using a private IP, I can't connect to any of the FTP ...

I have a need to implement a linked list that will hold a large number of
items. I have done a little performance testing to compare the linked list
against the framework's standard hashtable.
So far the linked list meets my objectives in all ways  -- except for one

I'm profiling my (fairly complex) application and discovered that nearly half
the time spent is inside of Regex.IsMatch.  Diving a little deeper, it seems
that the main culprit is a bazillion calls to ToLower inside of the Regex
code.

on an order entry form i have listbox showing customer lisitng @ approx
100kb and also its corresponding viewstate.
this has a very neg impact on perf as each page load is about 300kb and
takes several seconds.

Hi,
I run a fairly straigt-forward application that uses SQL Server database.
One of the modules is runs as a batch for a few hours.
After a few times I got a System.OutOfMemoryException, I've started calling

In a simple .NET application, I create a Hashtable that add 1000 entries to
it.
In Task Manager, the memory usage for the .NET process spikes up
(understandably).

Can anybody tell me what is the quickest way )most efficient) method of
performing comparisons in vb.net?
I'm making modifications to an asp.Net / vb.net application developed by
someone else.  The code base is loaded with nested if statements all doing

I've read many items about looping and performance issue on how you use
loops. I was bringing this up with other co-workers and there was a
slight dispute. I made a test example, and in most cases, it proved what
I have come to understand, and in some it surprised me.

I have web client application and web server application. The client will
send remoting request to the server. In a normal condition, the client app
runs smoothly. But sometimes, the client will request queue up due to too
many requests from users, and that requests will trigger ...

I wrote a very simple test program that opens an XML document then releases
the reference to it:
static void Main(string[] args)
{

Does anybody know some tips regarding the performance of weak references vs.
strong references?
Thanks,
Jamal

is there a tool that is able to show references to given object? CLR
Profiler shows me who allocated it, but I'm unable to find out why it
survives gen 0 collection without seeing who keeps reference to the
instance.

We have an application thats consuming 260~280MB (according to task manager)
on our webservers and I'm trying to investigate why. The performance monitor
says the heap size is 240MB, and generation 2 objects are consuming 98~99%
of the heap (238MB).

How do you deal with the lack of the "const" qualifier in .NET?
For example, I have a class which contains as member data a huge XML tree:
public class MyClass
{

Since strings are immutable, isn't this code:
           Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("TestFile.txt")
           Dim line As String
           Do