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这是微软推出的Patterns & Practices系列中的一个大部头，从各个层面来介绍如何提高.NET应用程序的运行性能和稳定性。包括：managed code, ASP.NET, Enterprise Services, Web services, remoting, ADO.NET, XML, SQL Server等方面的阐述，如图示。

细节如下

Part I, Introduction to Engineering for Performance

This part shows you how to apply performance considerations throughout your application life cycle and introduces fundamental performance and scalability concepts and terminology. Part I includes one chapter:

Chapter 1, "Fundamentals of Engineering for Performance"

Part II, Designing for Performance

Performance modeling helps you assess your design choices before committing to a solution. By considering from the start your performance objectives, workload, and metrics for your scenarios, you reduce risk. Use the design guidelines chapter to learn practices, principles, patterns, and anti-patterns that will help you to make informed choices. Part II includes three chapters:

Chapter 2, "Performance Modeling"
Chapter 3, "Design Guidelines for Application Performance"
Chapter 4, "Architecture and Design Review of a .NET Application for Performance and Scalability"

Part III, Application Performance and Scalability

This part provides a series of chapters that provide deep platform knowledge across the .NET Framework technologies. Use these chapters to learn about the key performance and scalability considerations for the various .NET technologies, and to improve the efficiency of your code in these areas. Part III includes nine chapters:

Chapter 5, "Improving Managed Code Performance"
Chapter 6, "Improving ASP.NET Performance"
Chapter 7, "Improving Interop Performance"
Chapter 8, "Improving Enterprise Services Performance"
Chapter 9, "Improving XML Performance"
Chapter 10, "Improving Web Services Performance"
Chapter 11, "Improving Remoting Performance"
Chapter 12, "Improving ADO.NET Performance"
Chapter 13, "Code Review: .NET Application Performance"

Part IV, Database Server Performance and Scalability

This part shows how to improve SQL Server performance. This part includes one chapter:

Chapter 14, "Improving SQL Server Performance"

Part V, Measuring, Testing, and Tuning

This part shows which metrics monitor and analyze for specific performance aspects. It also explains how to load, stress, and capacity test your applications and how you can tune performance with appropriate application, platform, and system configuration. This part includes three chapters:

Chapter 15, "Measuring .NET Application Performance"
Chapter 16, "Testing .NET Application Performance"
Chapter 17, "Tuning .NET Application Performance"

Checklists

This section contains printable, task-based checklists, which are quick reference sheets to help you put the information and details that you learned in the individual chapters into action. This section includes the following checklists: