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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 8, "Improving Enterprise Services Performance"

Design Considerations

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use Enterprise Services only if you need to.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use library applications if possible.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider DLL and class relationships.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use distributed transactions only if you need to.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use object pooling to reduce object creation overhead.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Design pooled objects based on calling patterns.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use explicit interfaces.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Design less chatty interfaces.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Design stateless components.

Object Pooling

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Return objects to the pool promptly.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Monitor and tune pool size.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Preload applications that have large minimum pool sizes.

State Management

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Prefer stateless objects.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid using the Shared Property Manager (SPM).

Resource Management

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Optimize idle time management for server applications.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Always call Dispose.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif If you call COM components, consider calling ReleaseComObject.

Queued Components

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use queued components to decouple client and server lifetimes.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Do not wait for a response from a queued component.

Loosely Coupled Events

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Consider the fire in parallel option.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid LCE for multicast scenarios.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use Queued Components with LCE from ASP.NET.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Do not subscribe to LCE events from ASP.NET.

Transactions

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the right transaction mechanism.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Choose the right isolation level.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use compensating transactions to reduce lock times.

Security

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use a trusted server model if possible.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid impersonating in the middle tier.
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use packet privacy authentication only if you need encryption.

Threading

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Avoid STA components.

Synchronization

Check Description
Ff647710.checkbox(en-us,PandP.10).gif Use locks or mutexes for granular synchronization.

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