When building applications, you often come across objects that are quite expensive to create. In some scenarios, the cost of creating new objects is high enough to impact application performance. Here ...

Using COM+ pooled objects to cache and reuse valuable resources is one of the most effective ways to boost performance in server-side .NET and COM-based applications. Database connections are among ...

Pooling resources (also called object pooling) among multiple clients is a technique used to promote object reuse and to reduce the overhead of creating new resources, resulting in better performance ...

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 31, "Serviced Components," of Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro's book, Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and ...