Configuration API Improvements in ASP.NET 2.0
By introducing a spate of new configuration-specific features, .NET 2.0 makes managing your deployed .NET applications a breeze. Microsoft has greatly enhanced the management tasks for your .NET 2.0 applications by providing a set of configuration APIs that you can use to programmatically access, modify, and save the configuration of an application using minimal code. This article explores the new and enhanced configuration API that ships with .NET Framework 2.0 by providing examples on how to use them from an ASP.NET Web application.
Precompilation In ASP.NET 2.0
When the first request arrives at your web application there is a mind-numbing amount of work to do. The worker process starts, the runtime initializes, ASPX pages are parsed and compiled to intermediate language, methods are just-in-time compiled to native code - and the list goes on and on. If you want to cut out some of the overhead and improve the startup time of your application, then you’ll want to look at the precompile features in ASP.NET 2.0.
