In part 1 of this series, we looked at some tricks to optimize the performance of any website running in IIS 7 by only modifying the web.config. In this part we will focus on handling browser caching issues and optimize the number of JavaScript and CSS files loaded from an ASP.NET website. NB! All ... [More]

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]

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]

A very simple and small class for utilizing the Google Closure Compiler API for minifying JavaScript. [More]

How to use JavaScript and the browser as a tool to scale websites [More]

A quick and dirty method for retrieving the last-modified date of a HTTP response in ASP.NET [More]

After interviewing many ASP.NET developers, an interesting pattern emerges... [More]

My little beef about the definition of the ASP.NET framework [More]

How to easily utilize a few cool capabilities of the iPhone and iPod in your own ASP.NET website. [More]

How to easily improve the performance and YSlow score of your website by tweaking the web.config. [More]