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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

Improving Performance with ASP.NET Output Caching


Accessing many objects at once can be a high-processing task, so some sort of programmatic caching is recommended in addition to the internal caching mechanisms discussed above for templates that access many objects via the Publishing API. The preferred method of caching for MCMS is ASP.NET output caching. This will reduce the number of objects that MCMS must compile when a page is requested, therefore reducing the amount of processing required.

ASP.NET output caching is used to store content created by dynamic pages. Instead of assembling the page over and over again, the content is retrieved from the cache. There are two types of ASP.NET output caching:

  • Page caching

  • User control caching (also called ASP.NET fragment caching)

If you are using legacy ASP-based templates from MCMS 2001, you cannot utilize ASP.NET output caching. However, MCMS 2001 includes its own fragment caching feature for ASP-based templates. We will not cover this caching...