Programming Design Patterns (Good for Analysts,Designers and Programmers)

A design pattern can solve many problems by providing a framework for building an application. Design patterns, which make the design process cleaner and more efficient, are especially well-suited for use in C# development because it is an object-oriented language. Existing design patterns make good templates for your objects, allowing you to build software faster. This article describes several popular design patterns you can use in your own applications, including the singleton, the decorator, the composite, and the state classes, which can improve the extensibility of your applications and the reuse of your objects.

.NET Performance and Design Best Practices [.NET](Only for Techies)

Summary: This document summarizes the solutions presented in Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability. It provides links to the detailed material in the guide so that you can easily locate the information you need to implement the solutions that are listed.

Improving Managed Code Performance [.NET](Only for Techies)

This chapter provides design and coding techniques for optimizing and improving the performance of your managed code. This chapter will help you develop managed code that takes full advantage of the high performance offered by the common language runtime. Key topics covered in this chapter include class design considerations, memory management and garbage collection issues, when and how to pin memory, developing efficient multithreaded code, using effective asynchronous execution, boxing considerations, string manipulation, exception management, arrays, collections, precompiling code with Ngen.exe, and much more.