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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman
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May 2004

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How to Use This Checklist

This checklist is a companion to Chapter 7, "Improving Interop Performance"

Design Considerations

Check Description
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Design chunky interfaces to avoid round trips.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Reduce round trips with a facade.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Implement IDisposable if you hold unmanaged resources across client calls.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Reduce or avoid the use of late binding and reflection.

Marshaling

Check Description
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Explicitly name the target method you call.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use blittable types where possible.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid Unicode to ANSI conversions where possible.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use IntPtr for manual marshaling.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use [in] and [out] to avoid unnecessary marshaling.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid aggressive pinning of short-lived objects.

Marshal.ReleaseCOMObject

Check Description
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider calling ReleaseComObject in server applications.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Do not force garbage collections with GC.Collect.

Code Access Security (CAS)

Check Description
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider using SuppressUnmanagedCode for performance-critical, trusted scenarios.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider using TLBIMP /unsafe for performance-critical, trusted scenarios.

Threading

Check Description
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Reduce or avoid cross-apartment calls.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use ASPCOMPAT when you call single-threaded apartment (STA) objects from ASP.NET.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use MTAThread when you call free-threaded objects.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid thread switches by using Neutral apartment COM components.

Monitoring Interop Performance

Check Description
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use performance counters for P/Invoke and COM interop.
Ff647714.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use CLR Spy to identify interop problems.

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