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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

How MCMS Works with Caching


Back in Chapter 1, we saw how MCMS renders content. MCMS does not produce static HTML pages anywhere on the server's hard disk, even though when you view the source of an MCMS posting in your browser you will see plain HTML. MCMS assembles this HTML for postings on the fly from template files and content in embedded MCMS placeholders. While dynamically generating pages ensures flexibility in the design of the application, it incurs processing overheads. More time is taken to generate and deliver dynamic pages as compared with static pages, which are delivered without any processing by the server.

MCMS optimizes site performance with four caching mechanisms:

  • Disk cache. When accessed for the first time, MCMS resource gallery items and local attachments are pulled from the database and stored on disk in the MCMS disk cache. Subsequent requests for cached resources can then be pulled from the disk cache instead of rebuilding them from the database.

  • Node cache. When...