Performance

In this video, we take a look at the Internet Explorer 10 on the Windows 8 Release Preview and the improvements made in performance, touch-first experiences, and HTML5 standards-based adaptive layouts. We explore three new demos available on IETestDrive.com today. The first demo, Chalkboard…

Performance Architect Vance Morrison spends his time isolating and solving performance issues in the .NET framework and Visual Studio, and Vance and team have recently been busy tuning the performance and memory usage characteristics of .NET's upcoming release. Here, we learn about…

At the BUILD Conference, Intel Corporation Mark Swearingen discusses Intel's engineering collaboration with Microsoft on Windows Server 8, highlighting the areas around power management, performance, virtualization, storage and networking.

In this DevNugget, a follow-up to part 1, Make Script Performance Automatic with Custom Templates in Visual Studio 2010, Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie shows you how you can customize the T4 templates used for creating new Views in an MVC3 application, to move script references to…

Have you ever run into a scenario where a long running task causes the Visual Studio UI thread to hang or become unresponsive? The PerfWatson extension logs these issues and automatically and anonymously reports back to Microsoft. In this episode, we are joined by Cameron McColl, who…

In this DevNugget, Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie shows you how you can create your own custom templates for your web application, with script references moved to the bottom of the page. Why the bottom? Because some browsers won't load any additional content while they're busy downloading a…

In this presentation you will learn : 1. Very basics of transaction logs internal structure i.e. VLFs. 2. Best practices for the log files. 3. Impacts of too many VLFs   Presented By:- Sakthivel Chidambaram  

In this presentation , you will learn about what are implicit conversions. What can be their implications in the SQL query executions.   Presented by: Rahul Digwasia

Application performance is a hot topic, and for good reason. User Experience is hugely important, but if your app is slow then everything degrades, including UX. In this episode, John talks to the Silverlight team's Mike Cook who shares several techniques that help tune Silverlight applications.…

Shane Guillet, the test lead for Silverlight on Windows Phone, joins Jaime Rodriguez for some hands-on tips and tricks and advice for those wanting to create fast Silverlight applications for Windows Phone. Relevant links: Shane's performance paper and samplesSilverlight performance team's…