Checklist: Interop Performance
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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman
Microsoft Corporation
May 2004
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How to Use This Checklist
This checklist is a companion to Chapter 7, "Improving Interop Performance"
Design Considerations
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Design chunky interfaces to avoid round trips. |
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Reduce round trips with a facade. |
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Implement IDisposable if you hold unmanaged resources across client calls. |
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Reduce or avoid the use of late binding and reflection. |
Marshaling
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Explicitly name the target method you call. |
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Use blittable types where possible. |
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Avoid Unicode to ANSI conversions where possible. |
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Use IntPtr for manual marshaling. |
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Use [in] and [out] to avoid unnecessary marshaling. |
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Avoid aggressive pinning of short-lived objects. |
Marshal.ReleaseCOMObject
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Consider calling ReleaseComObject in server applications. |
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Do not force garbage collections with GC.Collect. |
Code Access Security (CAS)
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Consider using SuppressUnmanagedCode for performance-critical, trusted scenarios. |
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Consider using TLBIMP /unsafe for performance-critical, trusted scenarios. |
Threading
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Reduce or avoid cross-apartment calls. |
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Use ASPCOMPAT when you call single-threaded apartment (STA) objects from ASP.NET. |
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Use MTAThread when you call free-threaded objects. |
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Avoid thread switches by using Neutral apartment COM components. |
Monitoring Interop Performance
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Use performance counters for P/Invoke and COM interop. |
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Use CLR Spy to identify interop problems. |
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