Let's make our .NET applications faster! We will dive deep into the .NET platform to learn how to analyze performance, find bottlenecks, and optimize our applications. We will get a solid understanding of .NET and Windows platforms and tooling, so we can reason about CPU, memory, network, and everything that affects performance. The workshop will focus on hands-on exercises in which you will get practical experience with tuning performance and using tools to see behind the scenes. It will also include expert-level lectures covering how .NET and Windows are built, or how CPU and memory subsystems work in modern computers.

Objectives:
- Learning .NET internals, including (among others): async state machine, memory management, exception handling, performance optimization tricks, or internals of web and desktop frameworks.
- Understanding Windows and x86 CPU architecture, how they work together, and how they are used by the .NET platform.
- Getting practical knowledge of tools for performance tuning, including debuggers, profilers, performance analyzers, and syscalls monitors.
- Reimplementing some .NET mechanisms for understanding and better performance: awaiting async void methods, hiding objects from the garbage collector, implementing custom tasks, and synchronization contexts.
- Practicing advanced troubleshooting scenarios: profiling, analyzing memory dump, or tracking memory leaks.

Requirements:
- Windows 11 running on x86_64 architecture with virtualization capabilities for Windows Sandbox and WSL2.
- Visual Studio 2022
- .NET 9
- .NET Framework 4.8