You can have a huge impact on customer satisfaction by improving your .NET application's perceived performance—that is, users' perception of the application's performance. You can have the fastest box ...

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(That said, I'm not particularly a huge fan of WPF and there are definitely things I'd like to see simplified/changed. But it's also currently the best option if you're building desktop applications ...

(. NET also provides you with advanced methods for controlling which threads run under which CPUs, as well as access to the thread pool itself, but these are more advanced topics best discussed later.