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After spending a lot of time focusing on Client-Side Web 2.0 Performance Problems it is time to focus on specific Server-Side Performance Problems. Last week I worked with a client that runs a custom application on Microsoft CRM 4.0 and experienced performance problems in their test environment. Individual web requests to query or update data [...]

Last week I got the following two questions from one of our clients

“We use ASP.NET PostBacks but can’t find the PurePath for the request triggering the PostBack handler – any hints?”
“We see many ThreadAbortExceptions in our ASP.NET Application and we are not sure why they happen – are they expected?”

Time for a little blog that [...]

With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is shipping the next version of the popular ASP.NET MVC Framework with its IDE. A year ago I blogged about my findings when getting my hands on the first version of ASP.NET MVC. The MVC Framework provides really nice features that make it very easy to build web applications on [...]

Microsoft released the next version of it’s Development IDE Visual Studio 2010. In fact – VS2010 is more than just an IDE to write applications. It also became a testing solution with the built-in Web-, Load- and functional testing capabilities. In a recent blog post and in a recent MSDN Webinar I demonstrated the capabilities [...]

In my last two blog entries I wrote about how to Use BizTalk Performance Counters and how to Analyze Adapter and Pipeline Performance. In this final blog I focus on Orchestration and calling external services.
Step 4: Analyzing Orchestration
Orchestrations can be as simple as reading a file from a file system, transforming it and writing it [...]

SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to manage content in the SharePoint Content Database.
Over the [...]

Visual Studio 2010 is almost here – Microsoft just released the first Release Candidate which looks pretty solid and good. Microsoft added new interfaces for performance management solutions like dynaTrace to extend the Web- and Load-Testing capabilities (check out Ed Glas’s blog on what’s in VSTS Load Testing) to go beyond .NET environments and deeper [...]

In Part I of this blog series I gave a general overview of BizTalk – the components that are involved in message processing and talked about how BizTalk specific performance counters can help spotting problematic areas. In this post we go beyond performance counters (even though we still need them) and take a deep-dive into [...]

Microsoft BizTalk enables companies to integrate and automate their business process (BPM). In a BizTalk environment messages are picked up by adapters and put through a robust message infrastructure where an orchestration engine allows you to implement your business processes. Along the way – a message takes – there are several points where performance of the overall [...]

Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party components, inefficient custom code, …
Too often we from [...]