Concepts and Architecture

AppDomains
Marshal-by-value and Marshal-by-reference
Object Activation - Singleton and SingleCall
Messages, Hosts, Sinks and WellKnownService Types
Lease Management

Building Distributed Applications

Implementing a sample scenerio practically using Remoting
Exposing Remote Server as a web service
Using SOAPSuds utility
Adding Security
Metadata dependency issues

SOAP and Message Flows

Introduction to SOAP Messages
Message Flows

Messages and Proxies

Messages and Message Types
TransparentProxy
RealProxy
Custom Proxies

Message Sinks and Contexts

IMessageSink Interface
Synchronous and Asynchronous Message Processing
Understanding Contexts
Dynamic Context Sinks
Sink Chains

Channel and Channel Sinks

Channel Terminology
Creating Custom Channels
Implementing a Custom Channel Sink

Serialization Formatters

Object Serialization
Custom Serialization
Object Graph Serialization and Deserialization
Surrogates
Serialization Formatters
Creating a Formatter Sink

Set Performance Objectives
Design for Performance
Measuring Performance
Testing Performance
Tuning Performance

Design guidelines for application performance

Deployment Considerations
Scaling up v/s Scaling out
Considering Database partitioning
Coupling and Cohesion considerations
Choosing appropriate communication mechanisms
Handling concurrency
Resource managements
Caching considerations
State managementa
Data Access and Passing data between layers
Exception Handling mechanisms
Class design considerations

Improving Managed Code Performance

Class Design Considerations
Garbage Collection Guidelines 
Considerations for Dispose and Finalize methods
Object Pinning
Threading considerations
Asynchronouse programming considerations
Locking and synchronization issues
Boxing and unboxing issues
Efficient Exception management
Iterations and Looping
String manipulation considerations
Guidelines for working with collections and arrays
Reflection and late binding
CAS Considerations
Working Set Considerations
Ngen.exe utility

Improving ASP.NET Performance

Threading and ThreadPool considerations
Resource Management
Guidelines for designing pages
Databinding issues
Caching Guidelines
Session and Application State considerations
String management considerations
Efficient Exception handling
Data access and custom paging
IIS 6 considerations

Improving Enterprise Services Performance

Object Pooling
State Management
Resource Management
Queued Components
Loosely Coupled Events
Transaction handling

Improving XML Performance

Parsing XML Efficiently
Validating XML
XPath and XSLT considerations
Multiple portals