Question

I am a web designer and usually design corporate web sites which often does not require update. So I want to cache the output for one day. How can I do this?

Also any suggestions for better performance for asp.net on slow servers are accepted.

Answer 1

I’d recommend you to follow this rules in order to improve performance in general

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

If you install the YSlow for firebug it will validate all these rules for you.

And regarding to cache in particular I recommend you to read this tutorial. Cache is a very extensive topic and it’s not easy to explain everything in 10 lines 🙂

http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#CONTROL

Specifically talking about the output cache directive for ASP NET pages, it’s quite simple to use. Here you have the reference

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hdxfb6cy.aspx

But please take into account that is important to use the cache for pages and also for other resources as css, JS and images.