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asp.netperformancevisual-studio-2008webforms
AngryHacker
AngryHacker

Reputation: 61646

How to speed up the development experience with ASP.NET?

I've gotten thrown into a WebForms ASP.NET 3.5 project on VS2008. The solution has 5 projects, so not too large. One thing that really annoys me is how long it takes go to from F5 to an actual web page that I can do something about (good 15-20 seconds). The box I am on is relatively recent - everything else on it feels really snappy.

What are some of the things I can do to speed up this process?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 244

Answers (2)

Mangesh
Mangesh

Reputation: 3997

  1. Directly reference the dlls instead of the projects.(If the referenced projects are compiled in release mode that's better)

  2. Set optimizeCompilations=”true” : When you experience very slow performance on an initial request to an ASP.NET Web site after you change the App_Code folder, the bin folder, or the Global.asax file.Turning on this flag will improve the performance.

  3. Use Combress (http://combres.codeplex.com/) to minify css and javascript files.

  4. Enable Gzip compression to reduce the network traffic on the network.This may reduce the network traffic by more than 50%.

  5. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html. try to implement the best coding practices.

These things will definitely improve the performance of the site.

Upvotes: 3

Simon Halsey
Simon Halsey

Reputation: 5479

If you don't need to debug, don't do it. What I do is start the project without debugging (ctrl + F5). you've now got a window attached to VS. All you need to do now is rebuild your code when you make code changes, which is much quicker.

Simon

Upvotes: 6

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