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Slow web pages may make your users or customers abandon your web application, even before they’ve had a proper look at it. You’ve likely also been frustrated working with a web application that is slow to load. The good news is that the latest versions of ReSharper and JetBrains Rider’s Dynamic P…

Whether you use Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) like Entity Framework Core (EF Core) or Dapper to work with data and databases in your applications or you use the underlying ADO.NET and SqlConnection directly, it’s easy to run into situations where performance could be improved by changing how you …

With the ReSharper tools 2023.1 Early Access Program (EAP) 5 release, we also made the standalone version of the dotTrace performance profiler available on macOS and Linux – for both x64 and ARM64 processors. You can now use dotTrace as a standalone tool to profile your .NET Core, Mono and Unity app…

The compound effect is when small changes executed consistently over time lead to dramatic results. It can go both ways, either enhancing the positives or aggravating the problems. Regular profiling, or lack thereof, is a good example of the compound effect. If you invest a little bit of time in …

Some memory issues are non-critical, but rather annoying. They occur once every couple of months and then disappear again. Of course, these annoying bugs only show up once an application is operating under production conditions. However, such problems can often be solved using a profiler. Shyam Sund…

You can develop fairly efficient applications straight away without a profiler, but if you work with third-party code via API, then bottlenecks will occur quite often. It is impossible to predict, but it is still possible to account for third-party code specifics without having the code itself. One …

QuestPDF is an open-source (OSS) .NET library for generating PDF documents. As part of our OSS Power-Ups, we highlight projects like QuestPDF to help raise awareness of noteworthy open-source projects in the .NET community. We also support projects through sponsorship and the expertise of our develo…

Profiling is an essential yet under-utilized aspect of building applications. We've all been there. In times of mounting pressure, we're more focused on shipping features and hoping we didn't add perceivable performance or memory issues to our app. If you're not familiar with dotTrace or dotMemo…

Today, we would like to share a few user stories about using the dotTrace performance profiler. We will tell you how a flaw was found in the new Intel CPUs' architecture, as well as how to find application performance problems when testing in the conventional sense is impossible. We’ll also share so…

dotTrace has long been our go to tool for performance profiling, helping you diagnose bottlenecks and performance problems in all types of managed code. In the 2021.2 release, we now support profiling native applications in Windows.

We are conducting a study on how our profilers are used and how they help resolve performance or memory issues. We invite all dotTrace and dotMemory users to take part. Keep reading for more details! SHARE A STORY What should I do? The whole process consists of just a few steps: Fill out and sub…

With the release of dotMemory 2021.2 around the corner, we thought we'd give you, our loyal JetBrains customers, a sneak peek at some new and exciting features. These newest improvements will make you become a memory maestro in no time! We re-worked the allocation analysis views. Allocations grou…