IT Course Outline

.NET Tunning, Debugging and Optimization

Prerequisites : The student should be an experienced .NET application developer

Course Length: 3 days

Course Description

Microsoft .NET applications must be thoroughly tested, debugged, and optimized before deployment, to ensure high performance and robust solutions. This course is designed for intermediate programmers to quickly come up to speed on techniques for debugging and optimizing .NET programs. It also covers tuning applications after they have been deployed.

Course Topics

Overview of .NET Debuggers Compile-time Errors and Run-time Errors Configuring Debug, Release, and Special Builds Visual Studio .NET Debugger The Windows-based DbgCLR Debugger The CorDbg Command-line Debugger Just-In-Time Debugging Fundamentals of Optimization Compiler Optimization Performance Measurements Using Performance Counters Responsive User Interfaces Best Practices for High Performance Error and Exception Handling Using Exception Handlers Checked Integer Arithmetic The Exceptions Dialog Box The $exception Pseudovariable User Defined Exceptions Best Practices in Exception Handling Application Profiling Profiling Techniques Tracing and Instrumenting an Application Using Performance Counters Resource Utilization Profiling Profiling Code Hotspots Debugging and Tracing Attaching to Processes Tracing Event Logs Optimizing ASP .NET Applications and Web Services Caching in ASP.NET Monitoring ASP.NET Application Performance Best Practices for High Performance Debugging Web Forms Applications Enabling ASP.NET Debugging Debugging Web Forms Applications Using Visual Studio Debugging Web Forms Applications Using .NET SDK Tracing and Event Logs with ASP.NET Debugging Client Scripts Remote Debugging Remote Debugging Setup Debugging Windows Forms Programs Remotely Debugging Web Applications and Services Remotely Debugging Web Services Enabling Web Services Debugging Debugging Web Services Using Visual Studio Debugging Web Services Using .NET SDK XML Serialization Issues HTTP Headers Issues Tuning Configuration Files in .NET Tuning Windows Forms Configuration Files Tuning ASP.NET Configuration Files More About Tracing Using the BooleanSwitch and TraceSwitch Classes Print Debugging Information with the Debug Class Instrumenting Release Builds with the Trace Class Using Listeners Implementing Custom Listeners