Sorry for cross-posting but wasn't getting any response in the asp.net forum.
I've have several webrequests being called sequentially in an .aspx that
return XML from sources outside the company.  When the page runs it can take
anywhere between 45-60 seconds because each ...

I know this is not the ultimate group for that question - any pointers
are welcome:
 ( I've posted it on the next group but there was no answer
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Dot-Net-Discussions/browse_frm/thread/a3f9f7
ed820cbbac/694f3ac67c6451f5#694f3ac67c6451f5)

I have written a server application, that will eventually be deployed
as a windows service.  Currently, I am testing it as a console
application.  I have a main thread that gets requests using remoting,
and then spawns worker threads (currently limited to 4),  which run a

I Am trying to migrate a vb6 project to vb.net but in the upgrade wizard the
conversion crash with a critical error (vbu.exe  unspecified error ....) when
the wizard is loading type library stdole
I have vs2002 sp1 Framevork1.1 sp1

I need some help with dotnet smart clients. We
are facing performance issues while downloading dll'd in a
application which is deployed as a smart client. We have around 35
dll's deployed and the load time required is around 19 secs or so.

What is the fastest and most efficient way to read and write binary data
from disk files? Does BufferedStream offer any advantage over FileStream? Do
BinaryReader and BinaryWriter offer any advantage over either FileStream or
BufferedStream? The docs are very imprecise and ...

I'm developing a data access framework. I'm have the following problem:
When users instantiate the main class of the framework, it read an
config file to get information like database type, connection string,
date format, etc.

Hi Ng
Hope this is the right group to place my question.
I have a simple VS2003 vb.net application, with 2 data grids and 2 combo
boxes on my UI.

(Type your message here)I got Debug Accertion error.My senario is to bring a popup and from there i will call other dialoge.But after the call, the whole VC++ program crashes and gv me the error(debug assertion error).may i  know the details of this error and need help to over ...

We have a asp.net web application in which we are making HTTP requests to a
remote
web server (CGI) & get response in form of XML data. We are using
HttpWebRequest

I've a little problem with the DateTime.Now precision. To be simple, imagine
this portion of code :
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
 ... // do some work, i.e: executing a 'SELECT' in database

What would be the most effcient way to use a huge in-memory string array?
I have a need for around 1.000.000+ strings of more or less the same size;
30-120 bytes each. I do not know the size in advance.
The code adds rapidly strings to the array, so access to the array should be

When working with strings does the StringDictionary give any performance
advantage over HashTable?
Does any know if StringDictionary and HashTable use the same algorithm to
perform searches?

During some testing in a simple console application, the automated use of a
ThreadPool performs more than 8 times faster (100,000 cycles in 18secs) than
controlling the same application through Thread.Start (100,000 cycles in 2:30
+).

I'm doing a bunch of x/2 calculations in a tight loop where x is an int. Does
that automatically get optimized as >>1? Is there a difference between /2 and

I prefer the readability of /2 but will use >>1 if it's slightly faster.