Hi, all:
I have a C# application that slows down over time, and and I'm trying to
figure out what the causes might be.  One suspect is long-lived objects --  
is there a good way to generate the object graph the garbage collector uses,

When I click add counter in the performance monitor I don't receive
a list of counters, in fact nothing happens and the program freezes.
I get the same result when I open the counters node in Visual Studio 2003
in the server explorer. I use Windows XP professional which I upgraded

Is there any difference in following two codes, regarding memory consumption
as well as Performance
ArrayList  x = GetArrayList();
ArrayList GetArrayList()

We are having problems with OutOfMemoryExceptions in our hosting
environment.
The web servers are running Windows 2003 web edition with 2GB of
physical RAM and the page file size set to 3.5GB.

I've a quetion which has bugged me for quite a while.
I wrote a C#/.NET Web service which is hosted by IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP SP2
machine. This Web service just get the content of the specified txt file and
send the content back to the client. The processing time on the server ...

I am working on a .NET Winforms remoting application works on .NET Framework
v1.1 and there are some performance bottle necks with DataTable and we are
using Syncfusion third party grid control for data display.
I heard that .NET framework version 2.0 improves the performance in ...

I have a method that returns a dataset to the client. There will be times
when the method should not return a dataset because it would violate a
business rule. The issue I have is that I need to return the type of business
rule violation to the client. I can throw a business rule ...

I am using this method with the FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories
option to get a collection of directories that I can then iterate over and
check ACLs for unknown sids.  The problem is that this method takes extreamly
long, particularly on a large directory structure ...

Is there any tool(ideally free:) which compacts and prune an
assembly(executable).
Dotfuscator does this, but does a lot more as well.
NOTE: I am not talking about zipping the executable in some other compressed

We just deployed our asp.net application on Xeon dual processor with
Hyperthreading turned on. OS Windows 2003 (Web Edition) .NET Framework
1.1
While stress testing with 1 wp, we get better throughput/RPS then with

I have a question regarding disposing of objects. Lets say I create a
Process[] to enumerate - should I call .Dispose on each of these Process'
? - This is how I am doing it at the moment -
Process[] prcs =System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses();

Not sure what we are doing wrong here, any help GREATLY appreaciated.
We are installing a Winforms / VB.Net package on a PC (Tested on Virtual PC
+ Terminal Services + Citrix -> 3 different boxes, all with the same
result). The user we use to install the application works ...

Hi I have a C# app which opens a process and reads the output via a
streamreader - the program reads the output from netstat. The amount of  PF
Delta goes up to 400 + ... I am concerned about this, however I do not have
a memory leak, Page file is static and memory usage is also ...

We have a SmartClient application that utilizes Visual Inheritance on many
of the forms.  We have noticed that these forms are much slower to
'initialize' when the are first drawn.  I don't know if it is because the
InitializeComponent() method is being called on each level, thus ...

I am starting to plan a portal site that will eventually (hopefully)
increase exponetianlly in the amount of traffic to the site. I am
planning to do this in a 3-tier/4-tier layout, I'm just wondering of
any design considerations before I embark.