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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

Cache Settings


Caching improves the performance of MCMS. The cache speeds up access to content that has already been requested in the past by storing an offline copy on the MCMS server machine, which saves a trip to the database. MCMS uses two modes of caching:

  • Local Disk Cache

  • Memory Cache

The SCA provides the means to configure the location and maximum size of the local disk cache as well as the maximum number of nodes in the memory cache.

Deciding on the actual values is an art in itself and requires much trial and error before settling on the optimum for your site. We discuss both caching techniques and how to derive the cache values in chapter 22. For now, we will simply show you how these values can be configured.

Configuring Cache Settings

Before we configure the settings, let's review what each setting does.

Local Disk Cache Location

By default, MCMS chooses the location: <install directory>/Microsoft Content Management Server/Server/ as the directory to store cached files. There...