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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman
Microsoft Corporation

May 2004

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How to Use This Checklist

This checklist is a companion to Chapter 11, "Improving Remoting Performance"

Design Considerations

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use .NET remoting for communicating between application domains in the same process.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the right host.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the right activation model.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the right channel.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the right formatter.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose between synchronous or asynchronous communication.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Minimize round trips and avoid chatty interfaces.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid holding state in memory.

Activation

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use client-activated objects (CAO) only where you need to control the lifetime.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use SingleCall server activated objects (SAO) for improved scalability.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use singleton where you need to access a synchronized resource.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use singleton where you need to control lifetime of server objects.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use appropriate state management to scale the solution.

Lifetime Considerations

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Tune default timeouts based on need.

Hosts

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use Internet Information Services (IIS) to authenticate calls.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Turn off HTTP keep alives when using IIS.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Host in IIS if you need to load balance using network load balancing (NLB).

Channels

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use TcpChannel for optimum performance.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use the TcpChannel in trusted server scenarios.

Formatters

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use the BinaryFormatter for optimized performance.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider Web services before using the SoapFormatter.

Marshal by Reference and Marshal by Value

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use MBR (marshal by reference) when the object state should stay in the host application domain.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use MBR when you need to update data frequently on the server.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use MBR when the size of the object is prohibitively large.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use MBV (marshal by value) when you need to pass object state to the target application domain.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use MBV when you do not need to update data on the server.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use small MBV objects when you need to update data frequently on the server.

Serialization and Marshaling

Check Description
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider using a data facade.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Marshal data efficiently and prefer primitive types.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Reduce serialized data by using NonSerialized.
Ff647679.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Prefer the BinaryFormatter.

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