Top Ten ASP.NET Tips and Traps - Presented this Saturday at the SoCal .NET Technical Summit

This Saturday - September 23rd - I'll be presenting my talk, Top 10 ASP.NET Tips and Traps, at the SoCal .NET Technical Summit in Irvine, California. It's not too late to sign up! For $99 you get a full day of sessions from a variety of top-notch speakers (including Rocky Lhotka, Scott Stanfield, Bill Vaughn, Chris Rolon, and others), organized into four tracks: Web/Atlas, Data, Architecture and Enterprise Practices, and Vista/WPF/WCF/WWF.

Earlier I listed the tips and traps I was planning on presenting, and asked for any feedback. I ended up settling on the following list (in the following order), organizing the tips/traps into four categories:

• Caching
• TIP: Use SQL Cache Dependencies
• TIP: Use HttpContext.Items as a Per-Request Cache
• TRAP: Avoid a Common Caching Race Condition
• Performance
• TIP: Improve Paging Performance with Custom Paging
• TIP: Disable View State (Where Appropriate) to Reduce Page Bloat
• Client-Side
• TIP: Know the Client-Side Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0
• TRAP: Beware Broken Links and Images in Master Pages
• Design-Time
• TIP: Master Visual Studio 2005's Enhancements
• TIP: Use Reflector to Explore Framework Code
• TRAP: When Using Membership, Don't Forget to Set applicationName

You can download this presentation at http://datawebcontrols.com/classes/TipsAndTraps.zip; to see it presented in person, head on down to the SoCal .NET Technical Summit! Hope to see you there!