Navigating the Maze
of Settings for Web Server Performance Optimization by Todd Wanke
Managing Internet Information Server 4.0 for Performance by Hans Hugli
ADO and SQL Server
Top Ten Tips: Accessing SQL Through ADO and ASP by J.D. Meier
Improve the Performance of your MDAC Application by Suresh Kannan
Pooling in the Microsoft Data Access Components by Leland Ahlbeck
and Don Willits
SQL Server: Performance Benchmarks and Guides
Improving the Performance of Data Access Components with IIS 4.0 by Leland Ahlbeck
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Performance Tips by Leland Ahlbeck
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Practical Performance Tuning and Optimization - The
Server Perspective by Damien Lindauer
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Practical Performance Tuning and Optimization - The
Application Perspective by Damien Lindauer
Accessing Recordsets over the Internet by Dino
Esposito
ASP components and threading models
ASP Component Guidelines by J.D. Meier
Q243548: INFO: Design Guidelines for VB Components under ASP
Threading Models Explained by Nancy Winnick Cluts
So Happy Together? Using ActiveX components with Active Server Pages by Nancy Winnick Cluts
Developing Active Server Components with ATL by George Reilly
Agility in Server Components by Neil Allain
Building High-Performance Middle-Tier Components with C++ by Jon Flanders
Active Server Pages and COM Apartments by Don Box
House of COM: Active Server Pages by Don Box
House of COM: Contexts by Don Box
House of COM: Performance Trade-offs of the Windows 2000 Component Execution
Environment by Don Box
Building COM Components That Take Full Advantage of Visual Basic and Scripting
by Ivo Salmre
Component Design Principles for MTS
Dictionary components
Creating a Page Cache Object by Robert Coleridge
Abridging the Dictionary Object: The ASP Team Creates a Lookup-Table Object by
Robert Carter
Caprock Dictionary
Site Server Commerce Edition includes a dictionary component
Session state
Q175167: HOWTO: Persisting Values Without Sessions
Q157906: HOWTO: How To Maintain State Across Pages with VBScript
XML-based Persistence Behaviors Fix Web Farm Headaches by Aaron Skonnard
House of COM: Stateless Programming by Don Box
Performance and scalability
Blueprint for Building Web Sites Using the Microsoft Windows DNA Platform
Server Performance and Scalability Killers by George Reilly
Microsoft Visual Studio Scalability Center
Fitch & Mather Stocks 2000
Tuning the FMStocks Application
High-Performance Visual Basic Apps by Ken Spencer
Duwamish Books, Phase 4
Top Windows DNA Performance Mistakes and How to Prevent Them by Gary Geiger and
Jon Pulsipher
Building from Static HTML to High-Performance Web-Farms by Shawn Bice
Tools
Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool
I Can？ Stress It Enough -- Load Test Your ASP
Application by J.D. Meier
Windows DNA Performance Kit
Monitoring Events in Distributed Applications Using Visual Studio Analyzer by
Mai-lan Tomsen
Books
Professional Active Server Pages 3.0, Wrox Press.
(Especially Chapter 26: Optimizing ASP Performance, by George Reilly and
Matthew Gibbs)
Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Resource Guide (bundled with
Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit, Microsoft Press.
Microsoft Internet Information Server Resource Kit (for IIS 4.0), Microsoft
Press.
Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 by
Ted Pattison, Microsoft Press.
Effective COM by Don Box, Keith Brown, Tim Ewald, and
Chris Sells; Addison-Wesley.
Developing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob
Nielsen, New Riders.
ASP Web sites
Microsoft TechNet for IIS
LearnASP.com
4GuysFromRolla.com
15Seconds.com
AspToday.com
Asp101.com
AspLists.com. Many specialized mailing lists including:
Fast Code!
ASP Advanced
Not Newbie
State Management
Scalability
Visual Basic Components
XML
C++/ATL Component Building
UseIt.com: Web
Usability
ASP style
ASP Best Practices by George Reilly
ASP Quick Lessons by Charles Carroll
Planning for ASP by John Meade
ASP Guidelines by J.D. Meier
XML
Inside XML Performance by Chris Lovett
Inside MSXML3 Performance by Chris Lovet