Many interesting projects are showing up on www.CodePlex.com such as the
Best Practices Analyzer. This tool is an engine for analyzing applications for Best Practices Compliance. The tool is Shared Source and is architected using a "Plug-In" design. This means the tool is easily extendible via new Plug-Ins and rules....
IBM's Web Service Definition...
This weekend I decided to do a little reading and downloaded "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/EngPrac/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenet.asp. This is a really good guide and provides you with theory, checklists, and how to's. Anyway, one of the major themes was do not wait until an application is deployed to begin perforance tuning. Instead the authors recommend that performance tuning should be part of the design process....