Andrii Nakryiko's blog

Quick post to not forget :)

Article (mentions x86 WinDbg installation under x64 OS): http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2010/09/using-windbg-to-find-memory-leaks-in-silverlight-applications/

Also quick cheatsheet:

.load C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\4.0.60129.0\sos.dll
!dumpheap -stat
!dumpheap -MT <mt>
!gcroot <addr>

I’m working with Silverlight 4 on my work for quite some time (from early betas).

And I was wondering about new cool feature of the Silverlight 4 - tcp.net binding. But it seems using it is quite more involved than BasicHttpBinding, but still - I want to understand it and use on my Silverlight project. Here I’ll post some useful links I’ve found - they are for me, just to not google for them one more time. I plan to come back here after IIS Express is out for beta testing (because one can’t use tcp.net with integrated in VisualStudio ASP.NET web-server, but I don’t want to install heavy-weight IIS7 on my working machine).

So, here are those links:

• http://www.42spikes.com/post/Using-Silverlight-4-and-NetTCP-Duplex-Callbacks.aspx (I guess the most useful article on how to setup everything)
• http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2009/11/wcf-nettcp-protocol-in-silverlight-4.html (I was very surprised with those benchmarking numbers, very impressive difference!)
• http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2009/08/improving-performance-of-concurrent-wcf.html (I didn’t think about benefits of using Worker threads until this article)
• http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2009/11/pubsub-sample-with-wcf-nettcp-protocol.html (quite informative as well, it is worth studying)
• http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/WCF-NET.TCP-Protocol-in-Silverlight-4.aspx (I didn’t look at it, but it was recommended in the first article)