Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01/ASPNETPerformance/
10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications
Rob Howard
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This article discusses: Common ASP.NET performance myths
Useful performance tips and tricks for ASP.NET
Suggestions for working with a database from ASP.NET
Caching and background processing with ASP.NET
This article uses the following technologies:
ASP.NET, .NET Framework, IIS
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Contents
Performance on the Data Tier
Tip 1—Return Multiple Resultsets
Tip 2—Paged Data Access
Tip 3—Connection Pooling
Tip 4—ASP.NET Cache API
Tip 5—Per-Request Caching
Tip 6—Background Processing
Tip 7—Page Output Caching and Proxy Servers
Tip 8—Run IIS 6.0 (If Only for Kernel Caching)
Tip 9—Use Gzip Compression
Tip 10—Server Control View State
Conclusion
Sidebars
Common Performance Myths
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