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Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications
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by Jeffrey Hasan and Kenneth Tu
Sales Rank: 176710
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Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition March 19, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590590724
ISBN-13: 978-1590590720
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
Product Description
The technical book market today is flooded with a slew of titles on how to build applications with the .NET technology, and many are undoubtedly very good. But the majority of these titles simply take a "how-to" approach on programming with the .NET Framework. They often pay little more than cursory attention to the real-world issues and challenges that developers face. Performance is one of those challenges.
This book is for intermediate to advanced .NET developers who need answers to the hard questions on how to build high-performance ASP.NET applications. Authors Jeffrey Hasan and Kenneth Tu focus on how to make good design decisions for performance. They discuss how to develop applications with performance in mind. And they pay special attention to the tools available to developers to quantify and monitor performance issues and to diagnose performance problems more quickly.
Infused with the authors' collective experiences, gathered from years of building high-performance web applications, this is a book that developers will want to keep on the shelf for a long time.
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Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications is targeted at developers who want to optimize the performance of their ASP.NET applications in the production environment. Currently, the market is being flooded with a slew of books on how to write .NET applications, but no ther title is exclusively devoted to the more advanced topic of tuning and optimizing ASP.NET applications.
Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications avoids basic language tutorials and dives right into how to architect and develop your ASP.NET applications for optimal performance. The book aims to provide the reader with a strong conceptual understanding of performance metrics and issues, combined with a strong toolset of how to develop for performance, and how to monitor and address performance issues. The book covers specific development issues that arise in common server architectures, such as Web farms.
The book also covers the tools that are available for monitoring and tuning ASP.NET performance, including a thorough review of Microsoft Application Center Test. You will learn how to run tests, interpret the results, and run capacity calculations. You will also learn how to script tests using the ACT API. Overall, this book aims to provide the intermediate to advanced developer with clear guidance on how to raise the performance of their ASP.NET applications to the next level.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Book Name: Performance Turning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications Authors: Mr. Jeffrey Hassan and Mr. Kenneth Tu Publisher: APress The Review Chapter 1: The book starts with basics about performance turning such as Throughput, "Response Time" and "Request bytes out total". This chapter also provides introduction to Windows performance utility and Microsoft Application Center Test utility. Chapter 2: This chapter provides thousand feet overview of ASP.NET. This chapter also discusses the performance related issues with Viewstate and how to measure that using the inbuilt ASP.NET tracing feature. This chapter covers the performance impacts of encoding and encrypting the Viewstate using the EnableViewStateMac attribute of the Page directive. This chapter also provides some vital information about ASP.NET configuration files and how to add app level configuration settings that is custom configuration settings (Very few books address this option.) One cool tip that really like about this chapter is that, "Persisting view state across multiple pages (Page No 37)". Chapter 3: This chapter starts with an overview of ADO.NET and teaches how we can improve performance of our application by turning the data access code. This chapter explains the relationship between DataSet's and XML. How the validate a DataSet with an XSD and Typed DataSet. Chapter 4: This chapter is a well-written chapter that provides ample amount of information about ASP.NET Session store and compares performance impacts of each of these stores. This chapter not only talks about how to read custom information from the web.config files, this chapter also shows the how to read it in the code (Very cool). Finally this chapter talks about "Choosing the right ASP.NET session store option." Chapter 5: This is a very nice chapter that talks about all the aspects of caching including output and data. I wish the authors covered the Shared attribute. One real good thing about this chapter is that, it goes above and beyond the ASP.NET web caching and talks about how to use ISA server for ASP.NET caching (including forward caching and reverse caching) Chapter 6: This is a typical web services chapter that teaches how to write web services using ASP.NET engine (including all the web services and web method related CLR attributes). The later part of the chapter covers the SOAP exceptions and how to raise one, calling web services with asynchronously using server-side and client-side web services behaviors, web services security and web services Vs Remoting. Finally this chapter talks about "Optimizing web services design" with 9 points. Chapter 7: This is a very nice chapter that covers all aspects of stress testing and monitoring ASP.NET applications including, · Concepts behind stress testing including latency, throughput and utilization · Performance testing approaches such as load/stress testing, scalability and transaction cost analysis · Best practices for stress testing · Using the ACT tool. Chapter 8: This chapter talks about the debugging and tracing features of ASP.NET applications. This includes types of execution, debugging, tracing, event logging and performance counters. This book is a welcome addition to the programmer's bookshelf. The only thing that is missing from this book is that, this book had covered hardcore tools such as "Rational Quentify", "Intel's .NET Performance" tools, that would have been a helpful addition.
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