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]

  The DataGridView is used everywhere – both in ASP.net apps as well as WinForms apps. A quick google search will reveal the scale of users affected by the slow refresh rate on the DataGridView control.  How the data is displayed is dictated by a property called the Display Mode. The Display Mode that most datagridview users opt for is the Bound mode. An object-bound datagridview Object binding refers to the ability to bind a control to a custom data type (your domain objects). In pr... [More]

As I start work on my eighth Agile project, I felt it was time to take a breather and recap everything that I have learnt about Agile (the fact that this post just has 2 points to touch upon doesn’t speak wonders for my learning ability…however, living by the maxim that quality trumps quantity, I shall proceed…) The whole idea behind Agile is based on the assumption that all customers are ‘fickle’ (for lack of a better word).  This means that all requirement... [More]

  A simple ‘Copy’ (or ‘Cut’) and Paste operation in VS 2010 leads to an ‘Out of Memory’ error. While this doesn’t lock Visual Studio, it prevents you from copying and pasting in your source files – and is annoying enough that one DOES need to shut the IDE down and restart it. So – it is almost as bad as an IDE crash in my opinion.   The fix can be found in this patch   http://cut.ms/2JB

  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]