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In this first installment of performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 we will look at some of the easy, yet powerful possibilities in the web.config file. By taking advantage of these few tricks we can increase the performance of any new or existing website without changing anything but the web.config file.
At ZYB we have been doing cross domain JavaScript calls for quite some time now. Whenever we tell that to people, many don’t believe it is possible with standard security settings in any modern browser. This surprised me a bit since it has always been possible with a simple little trick.
The problem
Say you have a [...]
I’ve been working lately with some ASP.NET performance optimization automation HTTP modules. In one of them I needed to know if the last-modified header had been set through the Response.Cache.SetLastModified(DateTime) method.
For some reason, there is no API available anywhere within the BCL to retrieve the last modified date of a response – you can only [...]
In the past 6 months I’ve been involved in hiring a lot of ASP.NET developers. It was very interesting to learn just how different skill sets ASP.NET developers have. It also made it more and more clear that every developer we talked to would fit into one of three categories:
The web developer
The developer [...]
I have a very clear view on what ASP.NET is and what it isn’t. I’ve never given it much thought until recently when I learned that my view was different from a lot of other ASP.NET developers’. It started at an ASP.NET session at the MVP summit where a presenter asked whether or not people [...]
When I was building the mobile TV guide I found that there are a couple of things needed to make the website look better on the iPhone and iPod. They both have some extra capabilities that is easy to utilize when you know how.
I’ve been tweaking the performance of BlogEngine.NEXT today using my favorite tool: YSlow for FireBug. One of the things YSlow checks for is the expires HTTP header for static content such as images, script files and style sheets. Since BlogEngine.NET has always used custom HTTP handlers for serving scripts and stylesheets, only the static images [...]
I’ve read a lot of posts and articles about why and when you should choose WebForms or the MVC framework to build your ASP.NET websites. They are all pretty good, but for some reason they forget or ignore the obvious third option – standard ASP.NET without the WebForm.
With IIS 7 it is now easier than ever to customize the inner workings of ASP.NET applications using only the web.config. It is possible to remove all the features but the ones the specific application uses. In other words, we are able to lock down our applications and only turn on the features we need. [...]
Some exiting things have been going on with BlogEngine.NET lately.
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