Application debugging and tuning

Microsoft .NET applications must be thoroughly tested, debugged, and optimized before deployment, to ensure high performance and robust solutions. Covers tuning applications after they have been deployed.

Fundamentals of Optimization

• Compiler Optimization
• Optimization Ramifications
• Optimized Code in the Debugger
• Performance Measurements
• Measurement Example
• Repeated Measurements
• Comparative Results
• Optimizing Data Structures and Algorithms
• Generating Random Input Data
• Analyzing Order Simulation
• A New Set of Parameters
• Saved Parameters
• A Single Order
• Responsive User Interfaces
• Multithreading
• Starting the Thread
• Best Practices

Application Profiling

• Profiling an Application
• Instrumenting an Application
• Implementation Code
• Using Performance Counters
• Performance Monitor
• Custom Performance Counters
• Performance Counters in .NET
• Garbage Collection
• Processor Performance Counters
• CLR Profiling Architecture

Optimizing ASP.NET Applications and Web Services

• Caching in ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Performance Counters
• Security Considerations
• Application Center Test
• Testing Web Services
• Best Practices
• Remote Debugging
• Deploying a Web Application
• Remote Debugging Demo

Tuning

• Configuration Files
• Multi-level Configuration
• Application Settings
• The Tuning Cycle
• Tuning ASP.NET Applications
• Configuration Files in ASP.NET
• Configuring Session State
• Mode Attribute

Overview of .NET Debuggers

• Compile-Time Errors
• Runtime Errors
• Project Configurations
• Release Configuration
• Just-in-Time Debugging
• The Call Stack
• Program Debug Database
• Runtime Debugger CorDbg
• JIT Debugging in Windows Apps

Error and Exception Handling

• Exceptions
• Checked Integer Arithmetic
• A Specific Exception
• Exceptions List
• Exception Handling Best Practices

Debugging and Tracing

• JIT Debugging: Review
• Attaching to Processes
• Processes Dialog
• Tracing
• Instrumenting an Application

Debugging Web Forms Applications

• Web Application Fundamentals
• Setting up the Web Examples
• Application-Level Tracing
• Conditional Tracing
• Trace Category
• Attaching to VS Debugger
• Web Factorial Program
• Debugging Client-Side Scripts

Debugging Web Services

• Debugging Without Code Behind
• Debugging Factorial Web Service
• XML and Web Services
• The Art of Debugging Web Services
• Web Services Security