Anuj Varma is a software application architect specializing in building high-performance applications - including those used by the financial industry and the energy industry.

Some of his applications - built for clients such as DELL and British Petroleum - continue to handle large user loads while seamlessly displaying significant volumes of data.

His unique combination of client side software including custom UI controls, large-scale object oriented design and data-tier troubleshooting skills ensures the highest standards of performance for any application.

This website contains a partial list of his work, his services as well as testimonials for his professionalism and work ethic. [More]

  NOTE: While this article focuses on ASMX services, the same server-side performance tuning principles can be applied to WCF services as well.     Typical Web Service Configuration A typical services hosting configuration involves a set of ASP.NET services (ASMX services) or WCF services hosted inside an HTTP Server (IIS Server).  These services (ASMX or WCF) access data repositories (either relational databases or XML data sources) through a Data Access... [More]

  Introduction This blog post discusses some of the differences between WCF and ASMX Services. Windows Communication Foundation WCF provides a common platform for all .NET communication. It is a programming platform and runtime system for building, configuring and deploying network-distributed services. It is the latest service oriented technology; Interoperability being one of its fundamental characteristics.   It is a combined set of features including Web Services, Remoti... [More]

  NOTE: While this article focuses on ASMX services, the same server-side performance tuning principles can be applied to WCF services as well.   Typical Web Service Configuration IIS Server running a hosted web service. Webservice (ASMX or WCF) accesses database (through a Data Access Layer) Desktop client(s) and possibly web clients connecting to the webservice to retrieve data or perform other service operations.   What can go wrong? In the above ‘typical&... [More]

  Business data tends to organize itself into rows and columns (witness the success of Lotus123, Excel and other spreadsheet software). For the .NET UI developer, the Windows DataGridView is indispensible in that it provides a quick way to organize business data into rows and columns. Sorting, Paging etc. are usually either built in or fairly straightforward to implement.   While the DataGridView control is flexible enough to display any IList as its datasource, it starts running int... [More]