Joseph Fluckiger's Blog

Today I presented at the Microsoft DevCares event at the InfoMart in Dallas. As promised I have made available the powerpoints and the VS solutions that I used for the demo. Here are the contents for Microsoft DevCares sponsored by Tekfokus: 1) Lap around Visual Studio Orcas Powerpoint 2) Linq and Data Access in Visual Studio Orcas Powerpoint 3) solution containing demos for ASP.NET 4) solution containing demos for LINQ These documents can be found in this direcotry http://fluckiger.org/joeblogpics/2007-05-25_devCares/ It was a great presentation today at DevCares and a good turnout with 31 developers in attendance. It is amazing how many new great features are being released in this version of Visual Studio. Note you will need to make one modification to the LINQ solution demo, you will need to change the SQL connection string to (insert your path): -pass in the filename using a "user instance" connection in your sql connection string like so: "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;...

Here are some useful numbers for relative data retrieval speeds: Data that lives here... ...will take this long to access CPU Register < 1 nanosecond CPU cache 2 nanoseconds RAM 50 nanoseconds Disk 12,000,000 nanoseconds Somewhere in that pile of paper on your desk 42,000,000,000 nanoseconds (Note that a nanosecond is 1 billionth of a second.) This was taken from a blog by mozy: http://mozy.com/blog/2006/06/13/defrag-the-mozy-way

Virtualization is becomming very popular. The benefits are many and there are two leading products: VMware GSX and Microsoft Virtual PC, but which is faster? I ran some performance tests using passmark performance tester 6.1. VMware GSX is WAY faster than Microsoft virtual PC. Look at the processor and disk marks, they are twice as high for VMware GSX! Microsoft VM = Operating system is Windows server 2003 diskmark =246 processor test= 316 memory =356 Vmware : Opperating system is Windows server 2003 disk=791 processor test = 690 memory=414 Both virtual hard disks are on the same M drive. The M drive consists of 2 10k Raptor drives in a RAID0 (sriped) configuration. My host box is a Dell Precision 690 and the processor is a dual core Pentium, and 2 gigs of ram.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long long time, and finally I have figured it out. My perfect network is coming together!   The key was given to me, as frequently is, by some smart folks at experts-exchange.com in this question: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Windows_Networking/Q_22548593.html