Anyone having good plan or refrence for monitoring dot net web app for
performance, network usage etc.
Or best approach how to to the same ?

Running into a weird situation wrt using ACT while stress testing web
service. The Web service disallows anonymous access & the ACT script is
setup to use domain account for the users.
When the test is run with 1 connection, authentication requests are

Let's say I have a dictionary where all the values are strings.  Does
anyone know if it is faster to say:
dim s as string = directcast(_dictionary(key), string)
or

I have observed that the ngen process appears in the list of processes
in
taskmgr while .net framework 1.1 gets installed. This process consumes
0-50%

I have Windows App that is calling several web services.  Sometimes,
when large amounts of data are transfered back and forth between the
windows client and the web services, I'm getting alot of memory
fragmentation caused by Object[] containing RuntimeMethodInfo

Is it a good practice to use the MinWorkingSet and MaxWorkingSet of the
Process class?
If so, what are the recommended values for these properties?
(If not, what other measures can be taken to reduce the amount of memory

For cleanup of COM objects that are declared local to a function on the
stack, is it necessary to call Marshal.ReleaseComObject() and set the local
stack variable to null to remove all rooted references?
TIA

Kindly let me know , how to monitor the performance of .Net application
and please suggest some tuning recommentation for the same.
Kindly answer for the following questions too..
1.How to find out the bottle necks using perfmon?

We are currently in the process of creating a dedicated test environment and
were wondering if it would be a good idea to place the test tools on a
seperate server from the on that the test application (asp.net) will be
running on? Example

Hopefully someone can explain the following. I'm using .NET 2.0 RTM.
I'm doing performance analysis on a medium size app that was running quite
slow after a certain period.
The app has a control front end, standard WinForms exe and 15 libraries that

I have a class that implements IDisposable but does not need a Finalizer -
thus, I haven't implemented one.  I'm using the "typical" Dispose pattern as
described on
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/c
pconFinalizeDispose.asp.

I am experiencing issues with some unusual memory growth.  My (Windows Forms)
application starts from a module (sub main).  When I need a form object, I
create the object and destroy it when I’m done.  Through out the life of the
application, the same form may be loaded and ...

I want to count the times my webservice is called with a PerformanceCounter.  
The account ASPNET doesn't have sufficient privileges to create the counter
if it is missing so I create the counter from my account (which has local
admin privs) and then try to instantiate the counter ...

i have this code:
in a click event:
..
myControl c = new myControl();

I need help on the usage of application variables...
Can I populate application variables through my console application and use
them
in my web application....