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When Containers Become Trashcans

Containers are so awesome. Prior to containers, if you wanted to experiment with some new technology, you had to go through the ringer to configure and install all of the appropriate dependencies, set up the proper infrastructure, and clutter your machine with tons of trash that you might not ever

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Why is My SQL Server Query Slow?

As applications and their associated databases grow, things change. Rows get modified, schema get updated, and often, things can slow down. These performance hits may come up suddenly, or maybe intermittent, but it's important to know how to distinguish what is going on so that you can go

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Making Your .NET Application Less Quirky

I'd like to believe that as developers, we are always looking for those silver-bullet type solutions. The ones where we just add a single line of code, adjust some global setting, and everything improves. Things run faster, more efficiently, and bugs just start resolving themselves - it'

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Can I Have My CPU Back Visual Studio?

Visual Studio 2017 has certainly been a major improvement over previous iteration of the flagship IDE; however, it isn't without its flaws. If you are a web developer, you are probably accustomed to Google Chrome basically hogging all the RAM that your machine has (and potentially more), but

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Knowing When to Reflect With Caller Info Attributes

If you've been around C# long enough, you've probably had a need at one time or another to figure out some information about code that's being executed. It might be a method name, the file being executed, or even more specific details like the

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Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1’s App Suspend Feature

It's always nice when you can just either install something or flip a switch and experience dramatic improvements within your application performance. This article covers one of those switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1