Easier way to manage your ASP.NET Cache

Was recently told by a client of mine that the ASP.NET app I developed was WAY TOO SLOW! I had to agree; the site was pinging the database twice on every load of the home page. So I said, “Give me a week… I’ll make it work better”. I went home feeling bad… my app was slow and I really didn’t know where to begin. I had a lot of code that depended on pinging the database and I didn’t want to sift through it all. What I ended up doing was using the cache object.

I started to look at other open source projects and their approaches to caching. Than DotNetKicks’ cache manager caught my eye! I went off that idea and created my own way of implementing an object to interface with the cache object, making it more manageable.

The Cache manager I wrote has 3 methods (Grab, insert, clear), a constructor and 2 properties (CacheKey, CacheDuration). So here’s my code in VB and C#:

Encrypt / Decrypt Section in Configuration File

Lets understand Encrypt and Decrypt particular section in web.config file with example of connectionstring encrypt in web.config file.

URL Mapping in asp.net 2.0

URL Mapping is a mechanism by which you can change the displayed url in address bar.

Example:

Your asp.net application is developed from years, with convention frm as prefix to webform.