debugging-and-performace|Oct 15, 2007

Why I’m Not Writing a Native C++ Debugging Book

In the introduction of my book Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications, I said I was going to write a second book focused on native C++ debugging. I’ve got a great outline prepared that has all sorts of interesting ideas. Some of the highlights are a complete focus on very advanced native usage of WinDBG. Things…
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debugging-and-performace|Sep 6, 2007

Updated Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications Source Code (3.2.10905.1)

There’s been two bug reported in the code so I fixed them. Here’s the updates from the Change Log: Fixed a bug in Wintellect.DiagnosticsConfigTraceSwitchWatcher.cs reported by Burke Attilla where I was not properly handling internationalized paths when looking for the .VSHOST. string. For Vista installations, properly set the InstallPrivileges property in Debugging.wxs and WintellectToolsInstall.wxs. Fixed…
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Blogs|Dec 13, 2005

XslCompiledTransform Performance

I’ve been meaning to write some benchmark code to compare the performance of .NET 2.0’s new XslCompiledTransform class and 1.1’s deprecated XslTransform. I finally got around to it this morning, and the results were a little disappointing. In my tests, which used a fairly simple style sheet, XslCompiledTransform ran about 3 times faster than XslTransform.…
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Blogs|Nov 13, 2004

Field access versus local variable access performance

Recently, I was at a customer site and they were comparing the performance of a function that was written in unmanaged C with its C# equivalent. As they expected, the C code was performing much faster than the C# code. However, I didn’t expect this. Once managed code is JIT compiled, the code is very…
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