I am maintaining one small web site and concurrent users less than 20
only(win2003/iis 6.0).
In my production IIS server w3wp.exe service Count increasing day by day
in

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Problem - While trying to do blocking receive we are using
Socket.Poll(....) but according to ClrProfiler the call to Poll
allocates about 1.5 MB per minute which causes extensive GC activity.

I've developed a lot of database-systems in Microsoft Access. Now I'm
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some performance differences between MS Access and VB.NET. When I
connect to a large table (more than 100.000 records) from a database

I have a Windows 2003 Web Edition box which has asp.net and asp pages both accessing serviced components.  The components don't seem to run slow, but the pages which are written in asp.net are rendered painfully slow.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rob

I need to write an app in C# that monitors several processes and sends an
alert via e-mail when any of those processes goes over a certain  CPU usage.
The process I need to monitor are all instances of the same console app.
Any help getting started would be appreciated.

My application is written in VB.NET and will run on a SmartPhone. My problem
is that my application is making too many string copy (String.Substring(...))
which is slowing my application.
Example of what the application has to do:

I am assuming that data set (through its base class) may need to have
finalizer defined for typed data set. If this is the case, what is the
justification for penalizing the code that does not use typed data set? If
this is not the case, I would appreciate if any one can post a ...

Does .NET offer any collection class which will give me objects last
*accessed* such that I may build a least-recently-used cache that
kills off objects that haven't been used for awhile?
Or is there any other way to implement this kind of a cache /

I have an application that uses HTTPHandlers to calculate the response to
send back to the user. The handler handles all calls to *.test and is working
fine.
Observed: In FileMon, I was surpised to see the w3wp.exe process trying to

Can you please help me with these questions.
1. I have a static method in a class. This method may
be simultaneously called by 2 or more classes. What
will happen?

Could someone point me in the direction of good discussions on scalable
state management solutions?
Specifically, pros and cons of following strategies:
Strategy 1 : temporary business-objects are implicitly stored in RAM,

I'm in need to download big files using async operations, I've done my
implementation based on this example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr
fsystemnethttpwebrequestclassbegingetresponsetopic.asp
im facing the problem that after 1-2 ...

I wanted to decorate the features of a base class by declaring a
virtual method and deriving a new class, which overrides this method.
As I implemented this I found a strange performance behavior, that
occours as soon as I start nesting this concept.

Hi! I'm trying to read a fixed length text file, get the information for each
field from an XML file that describes the length of each sequential field,
and them put them in SQL database.  Here's what I'm doing thus far:
1) Generate a new command object with same name parameters ...

To ensure my C# Winforms application can only have one instance
running, I am using the code below:
string proc=Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName;
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