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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

What MCMS Caches by Default


Without any effort on your part, MCMS already caches a whole bunch of stuff. This caching is probably enough for most websites. We'll go over the default caching features, and in the next section we'll see what you can do to enhance your website with custom ASP.NET output caching.

The Disk Cache

When a visitor to your MCMS website accesses a page, ASP.NET receives the request (or ASP if you are working with legacy templates), accesses the content, and compiles it in RAM, combining it with your template code (from the file-system) and any posting-specific MCMS content (such as placeholder content). Local attachments and resource gallery items used within postings are not saved in RAM but instead saved in the MCMS disk cache.

The disk cache for MCMS is contained in the /NR/rdonlyres/ virtual directory. Embedded resource gallery items and local attachments (JPGs, GIFs, DOCs, PDFs, etc.) are copied here from the database the first time they are accessed, and if the...