ASP.NET
This post will be the first of what will be many posts with regards to application performance. After giving a number of presentations over the last 1-2 years, including one this evening in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area I've decided that some of these tips/tricks that I have with regards to improving application performance should really get put out here so people can find them and make the improvements to their applications. Going forward all of these posts will be categorized with at least the "Performance" category and then others that identify what systems are benefited by the changes. The subject of this post is Static Content Caching.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, January 19, 2012
I was recently debugging an issue with a form where the user wanted the "enter" button when pressed in a textbox to trigger a specific ASP.NET button to postback to the server. I have done similar things in the past with a method that changes for the pressing of Character 13 which is the enter key, then finding the buttion by id and then continuing on. Well recently I found out that depending on the structure you can still get some "interesting" results. So I went looking for a different method, and came up with the following.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, April 18, 2011
I know that many of the readers of this blog manage their own webservers and i have a helpful tip to share about improving the initial load time of your webserver. Although this modification I am recommending is a SMALL change and has a small impact, it is still worth doing as it will improve the performance and reduce the amount of work that IIS has to do.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, March 09, 2011
For just a little over a week there has been a lot of buzz in the .NET and DotNetNuke community around the POET security vulnerability that was identified within the Microsoft ASP.NET technology stack. For those of you unaware of the true details on this vulnerability I highly recommend you read the initial announcement from Scott Guthrie from Microsoft, as well as his Frequently Asked Questions post, and lastly his secondary followup posting, with a more detailed workaround. So why do I bring this up now? Well late last week DotNetNuke corporation released DotNetNuke 5.5.1 and in the materials that went out with that release they note that it includes a workaround fix for this vulnerability, I wanted to make sure that as always people have ALL information needed before they are doing upgrades.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 27, 2010
As I have mentioned in past posts here on this blog and via other communication channels I strongly believe that ANTS profiler which is offered by Red Gate software is a must-have tool for all software developers. Most recently with my day job I have been working with profiler a lot more than usual and it prompted me to re-visit the concept of profiling within the constructs of a DotNetNuke installation. I've had many individuals with questions before about, is it possible to profile a DNN module, or how do you set it up. Well this article will walk through all of the steps necessary to profile a single module within a local installation.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, August 11, 2009
As everyone that is a regular reader of this blog is already aware of I am a big fan of the WAP development model for all DotNetNuke development projects. Now, one of the most common issues that individuals have reported to me is that "design-time" support is not there for common DotNetNuke user controls that are common to integrate with custom modules. The controls I'm discussing are the DNN Label, Text Editor, and Url Controls. Luckly though it is VERY simple to get full design time support for the controls and this article will show you how to accomplish this!
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, August 04, 2009
A very common question that I get asked by people is; what tools do you use to complete your development and what type of system do you use. Now, I believe I have written a bit about this in the past, but I thought I would take some time to go through and give a bit of a detailed overview of what I use for development and why I have selected the hardware and software that I have. I will cover this in detail from both the hardware and software point of view.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, May 22, 2009
My last blog article "Selecting the Right Source Control Provider" touched on the evaluation criteria that I use when looking for a source control system. This article is a review of sorts of SourceGear's Vault product, my preferred source control system. I'll start by reviewing vault as it relates to the criteria from the previous article, I will then provide my overall feedback on my experience with Vault.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, April 16, 2009
One of the most common questions that I have been getting recently has been "what source control provider do you use and why?". This article is the first in a series of two articles about source control. This article takes a quick look at criteria that I believe is important to consider when it comes to evaulating source control systems for use. The next article in the series will be a review of the source control system that I use, in relation to the evaulation criteria that I list in this article.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Recently I have been responding to more and more forum posts and e-mails regarding DotNetNuke and selecting a hosting provider. Back in May I had a blog post Selecting a Hosting Provider Revisited, this article did a great job of outlining the basic consideration points when it comes to selecting a hosting environment for DotNetNuke. However, recent technology changes and other hosting options has created a few more items that need to be considered. This article is designed to specifically address the concerns and questions behind shared, virtual dedicated, dedicated, and cloud hosting options.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, December 08, 2008
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