Professional ASP.NET Performance [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Matt Odhner (Author), Doug Thews (Author), James Avery (Author), James Greenwood (Author), Andrew Reid (Author), K. Scott Allen (Author)

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Product Description

If you want to build ASP.NET applications that perform well, you need this book.

This book will show you how to use the features offered by ASP.NET to develop efficient applications that will make the most of the hardware they run on.

The book covers:

How ASP.NET concepts relate to application performance
Designing for performance
Techniques for maximizing the performance of code
Using caching effectively
High performance data access
Performance Testing (including the ACT system that is integrated with Visual Studio .NET and the free WAS tool)
Tuning underperforming applications
Monitoring performance with built in and custom performance counters

The code in this book is presented in Visual Basic .NET

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861007558
• ISBN-13: 978-1861007551
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,104,925 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book!, June 9, 2003

By	"stephlynn" (New Holland, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This book is exceptional. It provides several programming scenarios for different operations, then lists the good and bad points of each. It also explains in which situation they are best used. For example: .NET Remoting vs. Web Services vs. COM

There are several performance tips given that I never thought about and they really work . . . I, of course, had to test them for myself.

If you are like me, you don't have time to test every scenario to find out which technique is best for every situation, this book helped to guide me in the right direction.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Belongs on your shelf with other red books, August 7, 2003

By	Jeffrey Putz (Brunswick, OH United States) - See all my reviews

It's a shame that apparently Wrox has scaled back their book line since nearly going out of business, as this is one of the most practical, useful books I've read on ASP .Net. The book covers a lot of areas that generally are overlooked in the generalized books. For example, a great tip is to do your data binding in Page_PreRender instead of Page_Load because it happens after postback events are handled, thus saving you from having to perhaps do it twice.

The book also goes into more detail about the usefulness and dangers of viewstate, session and application objects, lots on caching, etc. This book will make you a better code monkey. Try and get it!