Can you cache data in a web farm enviroment? Doen anybody have some sample
code?

When you cache data is it kept separate from other user sessions, or does
every user session on the web site have access to the cache of data?

How would I cache the entire content of my header for a week. The header
contains a bunch of DHTML to render my menu and it also contains images.
Thanks,
~yamazed

streaming random  filetypes from .aspx
how to stream a file from inside a .aspx? e.g. so one could go
href="./foo.aspx?file=bar.mp3" or href="./foo.aspx?foo.dat" etc. preferabley
i would like all file types to open with "save as" when href clicked

I am developing a website in ASP.NET (C#) and Microsoft Content
Management Server 2002 (a.k.a. MCMS 2002). MCMS 2002 creates each page
on the fly and returns by default always an HTTP status code 200, also
when the page has not been modified since the last request from the

in Application_BeginRequest how do i cancel the request and send back a
message?

We have been looking into enhancing the performance of a system through
caching of data, thus reducing the number of calls to the database. I have
seen the article by Rob Howard detailing how to achieve this in ASP 1.1
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default ...

limiting access to files with asp.net
is there any way i can make a file only accessible to certain users of my
website? my files are to large to copy to a temp directory and they are of
many types, .exe .xsl .xml etc. i want an href to each file but only allow

I am trying to get SqlCacheDependency working with SQL2K5 and ASP.NET2 ; I
am trying a simple example where I am entering an item into the cache and
assigning it a SqlCacheDependency...
   Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

Hello.  We will be turning on compression on IIS 6.0 for our asp.net 2.0
website.   Although someone also said that pages and controls cannot be
cached.  I believe I did read someone there are certain restrictions on
caching an entire page, but what about user controls?   I would ...

I am developing one Portfolio Management application where there is
single database shared by all the traders.
I have developed web-based application for this. I want to make this
multiuser application.

I am looking for the best books / references that discuss the issues and
solutions regarding data caching and web farms.
Thanks.
Jay

I have a user control which makes a System.Net.Webrequest to get weather data
from a rather low-performance XML feed.  It times out peridically, which puts
a blank page in the cache until the next time the cache expires.  I figure
there has to be an easy way to detect whether I ...

Problem with saving session variables of you hyperlink into your site to
a gateway page and then redirect to another page.
I have an asp.net application and have a gateway page that accepts
querystring parameters that I save in Session and then redirect to

For a highly scalable app, to properly implement output-caching of pages
(page-fragments, user-controls, etc.) is it necessary to utilize
parameterized URLs ?
Is there an alternate method to implement output-caching ?