wayne on March 4, 2008
Here is an article that is worth its weight in gold. Really. There are many aspects of ASP.Net that are completely unknown to the average developer, simply due to the size of the .Net Framework most likely. I suspect if you poll a few developers and ask them how to optimize an ASP.Net web site they will come back with eliminate viewstate, optimize images, enable caching etc...but what about removing unnecessary HTTPModules?
This lengthy article delves into identifying and removing unnecessary HTTPModules, what to do before going live with an ASP.net application, caching AJAX calls, making the best use of the browsers caching ability and much more.
10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets