Performance This section includes information on logging, tracing, profiling, and other diagnostic techniques for analyzing and monitoring your .NET applications. Improving Application Startup Time The CLR performance team met with several customers to investigate performance issues in some of their applications. One recurring problem was client application startup time. In this column, the author presents lessons the performance team learned analyzing these applications. Base Class Library Performance Tips and Tricks The CLR team provides insights into the core of managed code, shares best practices, explains of some of the more obscure functionalities, and presents personal tips and suggestions. The Performance Benefits of NGen NGen refers to the process of precompiling Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) executables into machine code prior to execution time. This results in two primary performance benefits. Read about it here. CLR Profiler for the .NET Framework 2.0 Download the CLR Profiler, which allows developers to see the allocation profile of their managed applications. Performance Console (PerfConsole) 1.0 PerfConsole is a simple performance investigation tool which tries to adopt a debugger-like experience to drilling into Visual Studio Performance Profiler–generated data. CLR Blogs Rico Mariani's Blog More... Maoni's Blog More...