Hi folks

Tralesh · #1 (**permalink**) Jun 8th, 2004, 08:49

Found the forums today

I am a somewhat experienced web designer living in Cornwall, England. Completely self taught from books, sites and forum crawling and use ASP and ASP.NET by preferance (easier to understand in short!) but am always searching the web for more knowledge, so look out on the help forums (headed there next!!).

Two sites I have done, or doing, are:
Business Planning Consultancy - done in ASP with an access (will be SQL Server) backend

Langtons (IFA) Ltd - my first bit of .NET

Smokie · #2 (**permalink**) Jun 8th, 2004, 10:32

welcomez!

Holy **** that Langtons site is quick!!!

Tralesh · #3 (**permalink**) Jun 8th, 2004, 12:58

Hey, thanks Smokie.

The site is my first foray into .NET, been using webmatrix and DW MX 2004. Have to say .NET is probably the best thing Microsoft have done in a long time.

Smokie · #4 (**permalink**) Jun 8th, 2004, 16:09

dam right mate, im learning it now.

Wheres that site hosted?

Webforumz Staff · #5 (**permalink**) Jun 8th, 2004, 23:03

Yes, well done that .NET site IS quick!!

Oh and welcome!! [:P]

courtjester · #6 (**permalink**) Jun 9th, 2004, 03:51

Does it load everything on the first page? Cause it takes like 20 seconds to load the first page then its like its in my systems cache while running the other pages...

Tralesh · #7 (**permalink**) Jun 9th, 2004, 09:01

It's hosted with Netcetra on their developer package. Pretty good hosts - takes time to set up the space correctly (a few support calls), but they are nice and quick at sorting problems etc.

The front page has 3 datasets on it, which is I guess why it is a bit slower. Any tips on how to improve that would be gratefully received.

Smokie · #8 (**permalink**) Jun 9th, 2004, 10:45

Have you tried caching the datasets?

You can either cache the entire page like this:

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<%@ OutPutCache Duration="300" VarybyParam="none" %>

or you could just cache the dataset itself like this:

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    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        'Put user code to initialize the page here
        DataSet1 = Cache("Products")
        If DataSet1 Is Nothing Then
            DataSet1 = New DataSet
            SqlDataAdapter1.Fill(DataSet1)
            Cache("Products") = DataSet1
        End If
        DataGrid1.DataSource = DataSet1
        DataGrid1.DataBind()
    End Sub

or you could use a DataReader instead of a DataSet, apparently they are about twice as fast!

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