I've written a Windows service in C#.  This service listens a tcp port and
it creates a new thread with every new socket that arrives.  This service
also connects to a SQL Server database through a SQLConnection object.
The question is, how do I know if the number of threads of my ...

I have a question which is perhaps dumb. I would like to know wheter
there is difference in performance getting a value through:
MyObj1.MyObj2.MyObj3.MyObj4.MyObj5.MyObj6.MyObj7.MyObj8.MyProperty
instead of

What's the difference between Convert.toString and .toString() method
?
Just to give an understanding of what the above question means seethe
below code.

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My C# app watches for new text files. It reads each file, launches an
external process in a BackgroundWorker to handle the data, then deletes the
file.  The OnCreate event handler cannot call other procedures directly
(because it is static and other processes refer to dynamic ...

Using VS2005 C# to develop Windows Mobile 5 application (.Net Compact
Framework 2.0).  We have two of our apps on the mobile device - one is the
application itself, the second is an event-driven system management tool that
is basically idle, except for a socket lister and a file ...

I recently started to use SOS to ananlyize memory dumps and got the
following at the end of the results from calling the !DumpHeap -Stat command.
Fragmented blocks larger than 0.5MB:
     Addr     Size Followed by

Is it generally best practice and/or improved perfomance to copy local
the .Net system dll's used within a Asp.Net 1.1 solution?

I'm working on a custom control thats pretty graphics intensive, it can
at an extreme with current test data, have upto 60,000 lines (each with
upto around 4 or 5 points).
To improve speed I'm using a pretty slow checking procedure that tests

All,
I've written a Windows Service that polls our database server every 10
seconds or so.  It's running on multiple boxes and basically checks the
database to see if that particular machine needs to perform a specific

I've assigned a project where the performance is very unsual and really slow
at times. At my first glance at the deployment I found that the project was
deployed in "Debug" mode with the compilation node's debug attribute and
trace attributes set to "true". I compiled in ...

I'm loading several images from a database into memory, and when I do this
the memory usage for the process goes up in task manager by the size of the
bmp.  After loading the image, I run the following code:
Bitmap bitmap = (System.Drawing.Bitmap)databaseBitmap.Clone();

We are wondering how the cache gets used and reused as DLLs are brought in to
it.
I did some timing traces starting with a cleared cache.  As forms
(individual DLLs) were accessed the first time they were brought in to the

I have a timer running on our form and what we have seen is users who leave
there application open for more than a day straight will have a response
problem with the UI. We tracked the CPU utilization and the spikes started
off at 1 min intervals every 10 minutes and it increased ...

The performance of this call is very slow when it is called the first time
within a program. ( 5 - 6 seconds ) However the second time I call this
method is very fast. ( 10 - 40 ms ). It does not matter how long I wait
between subsequent calls it is still fast.