Challenging the C# StringBuilder Performance
Some of the biggest performance problems in almost any .NET application boil down to string...
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Find, Fix, and Avoid Performance Problems in C# .NET: 10 Best Practices
Don’t know about you, but I’m obsessed about performance. I’ve gathered a list of 10 best practices on dealing with performance problems, starting with when you need to deal with them at all.
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How to Debug LINQ queries in C#
LINQ is terrible to debug. We have no way of knowing what goes on inside that query. We can see the input, we can see the output, but that’s about it. What happens when something goes wrong? Do we just stare at the code, trying to get some kind of insight? There’s got to be a better way…
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Extension Methods Guidelines in C# .NET
Extension methods are awesome, right? They are probably most widely used in the LINQ feature. But when should we use them? And when shouldn’t we? Let’s talk guidelines.
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8 Techniques to Avoid GC Pressure and Improve Performance in C# .NET
Poor memory management can hurt performance in many ways. One such effect is called GC Pressure. This article will show 8 techniques to minimize GC pressure, and by doing so, improve performance.
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Cache Implementations in C# .NET
One of the most commonly used patterns in software development is Caching. It’s a simple, yet extremely effective concept. The idea is reuse of results. When performing a heavy operation, we will save the result in said cache
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Performance Showdown of Producer/Consumer (Job Queues) Implementations in C# .NET
I recently wrote 3 blog posts on different Producer/Consumer (Job Queues) implementations. In this article, we will compare performance of all the approaches, including…
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7 Debugging Techniques for when your .NET application Freezes (hangs)
How many times did you use a desktop application to end up with a frozen unresponsive window? This article is about what we are to do when our .NET application freezes. We’re going to explore tools and debugging techniques to see where the program is stuck and to find the core cause of the issue.
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8 Ways You can Cause Memory Leaks in .NET
Memory leaks are sneakily bad creatures. It’s easy to ignore them for a very long time, while they slowly destroy the application. With memory leaks, your memory consumption grows, creating GC pressure and performance problems. Finally, the program will just crash on an out-of-memory exception.
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