Is there are a guide published by microsoft or somebody else about the best practices for creating scalable web applications? like patterns to use and how to do data access.
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The Microsoft Patterns & Practices group is a good one stop shopping ground for that.
Edit: Here is their guide specifically on Scalability and Performance. Chapter 6 includes information specific to ASP.NET Performance and Chapter 17 includes information about Tuning.
Nick
2010-03-02 21:44:56
Specifically chapter 6 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998549.aspx) and 17 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998583.aspx) for ASP.Net.
adrianbanks
2010-03-02 21:53:55
@adrianbanks - Edited the main answer with you specific links. Thanks.
Nick
2010-03-02 21:56:52
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The best advice I can give is to do these three things (roughly in order):
- Avoid unnecessary postbacks
- Avoid excessive viewstate
- Spend your time optimizing your database
Joel Coehoorn
2010-03-02 21:51:13
What about using linqdatasources to bind to controls, is that bad or good?
ryudice
2010-03-02 22:41:36
Nothing wrong with it, as long you fit it in the points above: does it cause extra postbacks - does it cause viewstate (hint: viewstate is independent of data source), and can you optimize your db code when the time comes (my experience with linq is that you usually can).
Joel Coehoorn
2010-03-02 23:26:18
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This is an excellent article on the subject of scale: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924375.aspx Which basically discusses the issues of load balancing, session affinity and caching all of which become important in any scaling discussion. If you have a specific question after that, let us know.
nelsonwebs
2010-03-02 21:57:55
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I'd take a read through the MVC Storefront series. It's ASP.NET MVC based, but demonstrates a nice approach for creating a loosely-coupled, well architected website. You could easily apply most of the principles to a webforms site as necessary (though I'd recommend going with MVC if yo have the choice...)
Marcus
2010-03-02 22:10:43