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This is the third in a series of video tutorials on how to use the PerfView profiling tool.   It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable.   A big part of an effective performance investigation is getting…

If you have an internet connection you are just a few clicks away from installing perfView.   This video shows you just how easy it is.   It is best to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the text is readable.   After…

The MongoDB C# driver gives .NET developers the ability to take full advantage of the features of MongoDB. In this video, 10gen software engineer Robert Stam, the author of the driver, shows how to do basic create/read/update/delete operations in C#. You can download the driver from the MongoDB…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've started seeing it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

Today's Hardware Friday is a triple dose of .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer getting started, into, kicked off, hooked, what are they and getting started posts. From a slide deck and great link round-up my Pete Brown, to watching him geek out for an hour to a getting started with FEZ Hydra…

Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of people taking their hard learned lessons, packaging them up and then sharing them freely…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:28] Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC (Monty Hammontree) [2:05] Announcing Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 [Mircea] (BCL Team) [3:57] Check out Hilo for…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 6 Some exceptions don't cause your application to crash.  Some do.  Either way, developers should work to rid their applications of exceptions for both stability and performance reasons.  Special guest Mario Hewardt joins us as we discuss how to detect…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 5   If you've spent any time developing applications, it's likely you've encountered a high cpu hang at some point.  Troubleshooting this problem in the dev environment is one thing, but how do Premier Field Engineers troubleshoot this problem in a customer's…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 4 "I got my first dump.  Now where do I begin?" I get this question a lot from customers and fellow Premier Field Engineers who are learning how to debug post-mortem dump files of problematic .NET applications.  In Part 4 of our series, we cover…