My VB.NET application is having a memory problem. It consist in a menu
form (mform) which calls other forms (oform). Actually, the mform
doesn't call the oform directly, it creates a new thread where the
oform is created and called. When the oform is closed its thread is

I have a 4 year old laptop and it regularly shutsdown during internet
activity especially when viewing videos. I have performed cleanups as advised
by help keys, is it because of the age of the unit, windows xp home edition
installed. I aim to get a new and improved one soon, can ...

.Net 1.1
I have developed an app that uses alot of double buffered forms. When minimized the app only uses about 1 meg of memory (as shown in taskmgr). Does garbage collection get triggered when you minimize?
When restored, the app starts at around 8 megs, then creeps up towards ...

I have build a small windows application which is storing records to SQL
express 2005 table every 200ms.
how can I monitor if there are no overload, or other bottleneck for storing
so huge amount of data in short time to tables ?

I have done some research on this issue, but still quite puzzled.
I read one article that says static constructor can be a big performance
hit, it even gives some code fragment, which, accoring to that article,
could show a big difference betweeen using static constructor or not. ...

I have done some research on this issue, but still quite puzzled.
I read one article that says static constructor can be a big performance
hit, it even gives some code fragment, which, accoring to that article,
could show a big difference betweeen using static constructor or not. ...