Performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 – part 1

by Mads Kristensen 7. July 2010 23:55
In this first installment of performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 we will look at some of the easy, yet powerful possibilities in the web.config file. By taking advantage of these few tricks we can increase the performance of any new or existing website without changing anything but the web.config file. [More]

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Client-side performance - IIS 6 vs. IIS 7

by Mads Kristensen 7. July 2010 19:56
I recently had to come up with a good argument for upgrading a Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. It is used as a web server, so the benefit I was looking for was the upgrade of IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. So I thought, why not make two deploys of the exact same website to both server editions and compa... [More]

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Google’s Page Speed and invalid HTML

by Mads Kristensen 13. April 2010 21:56
I’ve used Google’s Page Speed plug-in for Firebug a lot since it was released last year. Even though it’s not as good as Yahoo’s YSlow plug-in, it’s still very usable for some scenarios YSlow doesn’t support – my favorite being the analysis of unused CSS and... [More]

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Windows Phone 7 user agent

by Mads Kristensen 15. March 2010 22:11
At the Mix10 conference, the Windows Phone 7 teams had some very big announcements – a lot of it had been kept secret and first revealed to the public now. There is however still some details they keep secret. Some of these secrets are the user agents of Internet Explorer for Windows Phone 7, ... [More]

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Efficient stylesheet minification in C#

by Mads Kristensen 28. February 2010 20:00
A few weeks back i found out that the method I use to minify CSS was about 5% more efficient than the YUI Compressor. I tweeted about it and was encouraged to post the code that does the actual minification. public static string RemoveWhiteSpaceFromStylesheets(string body) {   body = Regex... [More]

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Embed images in stylesheets

by Mads Kristensen 22. December 2009 22:24
A video showing you how easy it is to embed images directly into stylesheets to reduce the number of HTTP requests [More]

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Client-side | Videos

Off topic: The grand plan of 2009 conclusion

by Mads Kristensen 29. November 2009 11:03
The conclusion of my grand plan of 2009 saying I have to visit 12 different countries by the end of the year. [More]

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Use Google's Closure Compiler in C#

by Mads Kristensen 8. November 2009 15:26
A very simple and small class for utilizing the Google Closure Compiler API for minifying JavaScript. [More]

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ASP.NET | Client-side

Use iframes with XHTML 1.0 Strict

by Mads Kristensen 4. November 2009 12:26
Use a custom DTD that adds iframe support to XHTML 1.0 Strict [More]

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Verify JavaScript syntax using C#

by Mads Kristensen 28. October 2009 23:10
How to use the Microsoft JScript compiler that's build into the .NET Framework [More]

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