Small code is fast code and fast code is good code. While we no longer have to worry about .NET memory management, the black box of the Garbage Collector makes things quite a bit interesting for performance tuning. This intense class is all about performance tuning .NET applications to help teach developers about how to think fast and do fast. The class starts with thinking about performance tuning and the ramifications of Windows and .NET on performance. The second part of the class will discuss key performance issues of everyday things in .NET so developers know the ramifications of all sorts of interesting .NET constructs to avoid performance pitfalls. The main part of the class is spent learning to use and analyzing performance for real world applications. While the focus is on using the Visual Studio performance tools, discussions on various other tools are included.

 

The focus for this class is obviously .NET code. It will not discuss SQL performance, network performance, or general machine performance. The expected audience for this course is developers and testers working with .NET code.