I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension!  ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level, rule-based routing and load balancing.  Read...

Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading:   URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release.  Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 features...

Every time I create an IIS website, I do some steps, which I consider as best practice for creating any IIS website for better performance, maintainability, and scalability. Here' re the things I do: Create a separate application pool for each web application I always create separate app pool for each...

It's a good practice to use many small Javascript and CSS files instead of one large Javascript/CSS file for better code maintainability, but bad in terms of website performance. Although you should write your Javascript code in small files and break large CSS files into small chunks but when browser...

Listen to the Show! Steve Smith , owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve’s expertise in this area comes from first-hand experience as Lake Quincy’s ad system serves over 60 requests per second and handles...

Microsoft is about to ship Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Now service patches aren't always very exciting, but these are because they contain some great new features. You've probably already heard the buzz around AJAX History support, and Dynamic Data. Script Combining is also part...

There are several problems with ASP.NET MVC application when deployed on IIS 6.0: Extensionless URLs give 404 unless some URL Rewrite module is used or wildcard mapping is enabled IIS 6.0 built-in compression does not work for dynamic requests. As a result, ASP.NET pages are served uncompressed resulting...

At times even after applying the best coding policies & practices you don’t get the desired level of performance you are hoping from your ASP.NET application. This is because there are number other very important factors that directly affect ASP.NET applications. To get the best out of any system...

Interested in knowing what kind of performance gains you can expect from IIS7?  Performance is a fickle beast, with so much of it dependent on your application, your hardware, configuration and tuning... it is sometimes hard to know which variables carry the most weight.  Fortunately, the Microsoft...

ensure allows you to load Javascript, HTML and CSS on-demand, whenever they are needed. It saves you from writing a gigantic Javascript framework up front so that you can ensure all functions are available whenever they are needed. It also saves you from delivering all possible html on your default page...