Chapter 15. Maintaining and Supporting a Web Application

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Boxing

• Event logs

• Performance counter

• Process

• Unboxing

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Recording application-specific messages to the Windows event log

• Using performance counters to monitor the performance of an executing application

• Learning how to design an ASP.NET application for performance

In this chapter, you'll learn about the techniques that enable you to gather execution information for an application. In particular, you'll learn how to get detailed execution information for the ASP.NET worker processes, how to record problems and issues to the event logs, and how to monitor the performance of an application. Finally, you'll also learn various techniques and tips you can use to improve the performance of an ASP.NET application.