Make your web application run faster

It is easy to develop your own ASP.NET web application. But making it do some useful things for your users while keeping the design simple and elegant is not so easy. If you are lucky, your web application will be used by more than a handful of users, in that case, performance can become important. For some of the web applications I worked on, performance is vital: the company will lose money if users get frustrated with the slow response.

There are many factors that can result in bad performance, the number of users is just one of them. As a developer in a big corporation, you usually don't have a chance to mess with real production servers. However, I think it is very helpful for developers to take a look at the servers that are hosting their applications.

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Programmatically Manage IIS

This article is about managing IIS programmatically. It provides a class library that represents the tree hierarchy used by IIS for its every aspect. The project is accompanied by a Windows Forms applications that is used to pinpoint and extract any data required.

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Versions of the .NET Framework and the IIS6 Application Pools

When a new version of any technology appears, there are always new rules to be considered.

As part of my job as a Web Administrator, I used to test the new web technologies on Testing Environment before applying it on the real one. Microsoft has made the .NET Framework starting with Version 1.0 followed by v1.1 and now there are new releases v2.0 and v3.0. Microsoft gave them the ability to run together on the same server at the same time.

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