Hi, I'm Danny Chen, (2nd from the right, grey shirt, next to Pete). Like Pete, I'm also an SDET for Visual Web Developer. I've been at Microsoft for about 1 1/2 years. Prior to shipping Visual Studio 2005, I was on the QA team for ASP.NET. I really enjoy working with the extensibility features of Visual Studio and ASP.NET whether it's creating ...
Welcome to the Web Development Tools team blog! Recently we decided to create a team blog to ensure regular content to you from more of our team members. Who are we, you ask? Web Development Tools is the team that brought you the awesome Visual Web Developer Express product. If you haven't downloaded this yet, what are you waiting for? ...
LOH (Large Object Heap) contains objects that are 85,000 bytes or bigger (there’s also some objects that are less than 85,000 bytes that are allocated on the LOH by the runtime itself but usually they are very small and we’ll ignore them for this discussion). The way LOH is implemented changed dramatically from 1.0 to 1.1. In 1.0 we used a ...
In Using GC Efficiently – Part 2 I talked about different flavors of GC that exist in the CLR and how you choose which flavor is good for your applications, and I said that the Server GC flavor is designed for server applications. As with any performance tuning there are always exceptions – there’s no one-rule-fits-all. Recently I worked with an in...
I will write about the things you asked in my last blog entry's comments in the next few blog entries.
In my previous Using GC Efficiently entries I've basically covered all the big areas of GC in the CLR. There are of course a lot of things to write about GC but I want to keep GC users as my target audience, not GC designers/implementors. So I would really like to hear from you - our customers of the .NET Framework - if you have specific ...
