28 Tips for Asp.net Web Development

1) Go for Javascript validations instead of validation controls 2) Use Javascript instead of VBscript. 3) Minimize the use of Forms authentication. 4) Use Connection Pooling and Object Pooling 5) Turn off Tracing unless until required 6) Turn off Session State, if not required 7) Disable View State of a Page if possible 8) Set debug=false in web.config 9) Avoid Response.Redirect as many places 10) Use the String builder to concatenate string 11) Avoid throwing exceptions. try to handle the exceptions without try catch. 12) Use Finally Method to kill resources 13) Avoid unnecessary round trips to the server 14) Use Gzip Compression 15) Use Page Output Caching and Proxy Servers 16) Use Per-Request Caching 17) Use Page.ISPostBack 18) Avoid Unnecessary Indirection 19) Use "ArrayLists" in place of arrays 20) Place StyleSheets into the Header 21) Put Scripts to the end of Document 22) Make JavaScript and CSS External 23) Use DataReader instead of Dataset 24) Make Enableviewstate property as false for the components (particularly for heavy items like datagrid, datalist etc) if it is not necessary. 25) Use xmlhttprequest object or scriptmanager to minimize post backs. 26) Declare regions for each section of codes. 27) Try to use datarepeater than any other data controls. 28) Use skins files.