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Multi threading in ASP.Net to increase performance of processing data from entity framework using anonymous types

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Thread-safe wrapper around WCF ServiceModel.ClientBase subclass

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Strategy for avoiding threadpool starvation while performing cpu bound jobs in a queued fashion

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Optimizing a Fire and Forget page tracker

I have a bit of code that came from Egg Head Cafe a long while ago and it's been working great. But I ran the entire site through Redgate's Profiler. and it came up as the biggest hot spot in my code. ...
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Is this a good way to optionally run some code on a background thread?

I'm attempting to keep this as DRY as possible; is this a good method to optionally run some code on a background thread depending on a configuration setting? This will primarily be called from an ...