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• Sitefinity 5.x Performance

  July 27, 2012

  This link was provided by Telerik to control recycle time:

  http://www.techbubbles.com/aspnet/auto-start-web-applications-in-aspnet-40/

  I did not have success adding all of these settings to our environment. This one for the applicationHost.config seemed to not causes issues.

  <applicationPools>

      <add name="MyApplicationPool" startMode="AlwaysRunning"  />

  </applicationPools>

  The preloadEnabled and preloadProvider resulted in a 500 error on my site.

  For creating the machine key required for network load balancing:

  http://aspnetresources.com/tools/machineKey

  Sitefinity

  optimization Web.Config Sitefinity 5.x

• Request Timeouts with Big Sitefinity File Uploads

  November 23, 2010

  While uploading large files through Sitefinity, particularly large ones, such as videos, some settings in the web.config need to be adjusted.

  As I blogged in Video in Sitefinity, maxRequestLength is one setting that plays into this, but there is also executionTimeout.

  For files in the 450MB range, I've set the timeout to 1000 seconds.

  <system.web>

          <!-- Sets the allowed upload file size -->

          <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1000000" executionTimeout=...

  Sitefinity

  Web.Config video Sitefinity 3.7

• Retrieving AppSettings in ASP.NET 4.0

  November 02, 2010

  In some earlier projects, I had been using this way of referencing AppSettings.

  Imports System.Configuration

  ...

  Dim myVar As String = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("mySetting")

  This is considered deprecated in the 4.0 framework. Here is a newer way to make the same reference.

  Imports System.Web.Configuration

  ...

  Dim myVar As String = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings("mySetting")

  This is a much simpler way than the example found on MSDN.

  VB.NET ASP.NET Web.Config

• Referencing Assemblies in Web.Config

  October 04, 2010

  Often, I end up referencing assemblies on the top of my master page. In this case, you can see the AjaxControlToolkit.

  <%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="cc1" %>

  However, in some cases it seems simpler to just add a single reference in the Web.Config, so that it is available to all pages and controls.

  I just had to look this up, so thought, I'd save it for next time! (thanks to deblendewim's response on the ASP.NET ...

  ASP.NET Web.Config

• Sitefinity Sitemap.XML HttpRedirect

  September 12, 2010

  After setting up the Sitefinity Toolkit Sitemap, I had the idea of trying to make it so crawlers would find it as sitemap.xml. Sitemap.ashx works, but you need to manually tell the search engines where it is.

  My first thought was to write an exact match URL redirect rule, making use of the URL rewriting module in IIS.

  I set this up, but always got a page not found error.

  On Scott Hanselman's site, ...

  Sitefinity

  sitemap Web.Config SEO IIS handlers

• URL Rewriting SEO Tweaks (in Sitefinity)

  September 01, 2010

  I've been working to learn all of the recommended practices for SEO and I've just found one of them that proved to be useful on a Sitefinity site could be easily implemented via several lines in the web.config.

  First let me point out my starting point for this was a post by Scott Guthrie which details a variety of these types of rules that can be set up. I believe this is for IIS7 and ...

  Sitefinity

  Web.Config SEO Sitefinity 3.7 URL Rewriting

• Adding Gzip to an ASP.NET website

  July 24, 2010

  As I've been messing around with SEO analysis, using gzip to compress site content was identified as a way to make the site more efficient and gives you a higher "score" on something like WooRank, which I've written about before.

  As a starting point, I Googled "sitefinity gzip" to see if there were any specific ways to enable compression in Sitefinity that were special features of Sitefinity or just ASP.NET features that could be ...

  Web.Config SEO gzip