Does anyone know of any good books (or even papers) on .NET profilers,
especially the .NET profiler Microsoft will allow you to download? I'm
having problems interpreting the results. A book would help. Thanks.

i need to write a simple console app which checks every 5 minutes or
so whether the website is available or not.
so after the start, it kind of runs till the windows is down...
how to do that, with threads?

When using PerformanceCounter.NextValue to measure CPU load (percentage), it
returns quickly on every call but then takes 20 seconds at the 2 minute
boundary. After this it again returns quickly. Here's a sample:
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Hi all, lets get start.
i have a few questions to ask perhaps someone can help me.
i?m doing a simple aplication. some thing like this
i have a form with a button that opens another form in dialog mode.

I was trying to find out the fastest way (coding standards and best practices
aside) to set data into Business Entities which only job is to encasulate
DataTables from the Business Components processing them.  We thought that
Fields would be faster but in a simple test of ...

How can I can access all the debugger aids (like Autos, Locals, Me (This),
MemoryLists, Threads, Modules, Registers) programmatically? I want too use
them in my program to log the exact picture of the error and its condition
like the values of the each variable etc. when an error ...

Hey folks! I need some light with this...
I have a big three layer application with a Web interface... once it was
built the webforms where using the dlls of the bussines logic in the same
server (bin directory of the virtual folder on IIS). However, a few weeks ago

Using v1.0, and a straightforward app, ie WebForms, Grids and MSSQL calls
into Datasets / SQLDataReaders.
On Testing (granted test server is a P2 350mhz), The Processor Counter shows
MAxing out at 10 concurrent users, all other counters are at absolute idle.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows the performance cost of calling
BeginInvoke on a method so that it executes on a differnent thread. Is the
cost much higher than just calling the method on the thread it's on? I need
todo this continually maybe 10 times a second, maybe more, ...

If I have an object MYCONTROL that has a reference to object A that
subscribes to an event of object B and has a reference to object B in
its Items collection that is a member of object A.  Object B also has
a reference varialbe Parent that points to object A.  If I null the

Is there a general method for finding out, to the byte, how much memory is
consumed by a given instance of an object?
I'm in the process of designing a scientific simulation program (to simulate
planetary formation, tectonics, etc).  To simulate an earth-sized planet

Can someone tell me what's the maximum size of array in .Net 1.1 and .Net
2.0. I need to handle very large in[] objects (indexed by Int64 ?), and
thinking to run my code on an AMD64.
Thanks in advance,

  I have developed a client .net application that gets launched via
No Touch Deployment...using the Assembly.LoadForm method...I have a
dll xrt.dll for which I have not maintained versioning...
When I launch my application after a machine reboot (xrt.dll already

Hello, I'm running the following code that i found on msdn documentation of
GetResponseStream method. If i try to transfer a big file using this code
and during that operation take a look to task manager i see that process
memory usage and handles keep increasing without stoping. ...

I'm not quite sure which groups to post this to, so short of a massive
crosspost, I decided on these two.
I am running into troubles with resource usage of our app on Win2k and above
systems. In several places, I have seen it said that the WinNT model only