Performance issues with SharePoint and Telerik RadGrid Control - asp.net

I originally posted this question to narrow down the slowness issues with my SharePoint application. After accepting StriplingWarrior's answer, I began to step through his suggestions. In a nutshell, I have a RadGrid within an Application Page hosted on a SharePoint 2010 Server. The RadGrid runs perfectly fine when paging; however, once a filter is applied, ex: give me last names that contain 'doe' (using Telerik's built-in filter mechanism), the results take upwards of 15 seconds to return. This does not occur in my development environment, using the same set of data (approx 30,000 records).
A couple of notes here:
The SQL which is produced by my LINQ to SQL expressions are fine. I traced them with LINQPad and placed them into Management Studio. Nothing complex going on there.
I created an empty ASP.NET 3.5 Web Forms application and ported one of the offending RadGrids. I placed the web application on the production server and wouldn't you know...it ran just fine. No performance issues when filtering.
So by doing the aforementioned, I was able to rule out the following:
Database optimization issues.
Network issues between the SharePoint application and database server.
LINQ to SQL optimization issues.
Looking at this case from a high-level, can you think of anything that I need to do on the SharePoint application server or otherwise to fix this issue? I have debugging turned off in the web.config.
Again, here is my original question that contains the code. Thank you.

I would start by establishing were the 15 seconds are spent:
1. Server side
2. Client side
You can use a browser plugin like Page Speed (http://code.google.com/intl/da-DK/speed/page-speed/) to measure various aspects of your page. In case a major part of the 15 seconds is used server side for rendering the page you can narrow down what takes so long with a profiler tool or tracing statements in the code.
Your issue sounds a little bit like an issue with how the RadGrid handles filtering. You say that the generated SQL and database performance is fine. Does the filter expression (e.g. doe) get translated to a SQL where clause? I would suspect that the Grid selects all records from the DB and than applies the filter.
Kr, Bernd.

The SharePoint performance problems occur primarily due to the following reasons:
BLOBs overwhelm SQL Server
Too many database trips for lists
You can dramatically improve SharePoint performance if you use a few of intelligent techniques which are:
Externalize Documents (BLOBs)
Cache Lists and BLOBs
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is an extremely popular product that improves effectiveness of organizations through content management and enterprise search, shared business processes, and information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. And StorageEdge is an extremely fine product that enhance/improve SharePoint performance.

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How to make asp.net web forms application faster?

My last project is a medium size asp.net web forms application. It is built using:
asp.net 3.5
ling to sql dbml --> sql server database (9 tables)
ext.net 1.6 (www.ext.net)
structuremap 2.5.3.0
This time I believed I did my best in terms of architectural design, code and data transfer optimizations. I followed all advice I could to work with the database efficiently through linq to sql and I built layers (model, repository, service, presentation) to separate concerns and lightweight the code in the aspx code behind files.
The problem is: I've installed the application in various web hosting servers with the same pitiful result: the application is struggling to work... pages are loading like in slow motion...
In the past I would say 'OK, I didn't do all I could to speed things up' but in this case I really tried to apply the best practices...
Is there anything else I can do about it? Or is it just asp.net for really small projects only?
thank you.
ASP.NET is fine for building large scale websites. As Brad mentioned, StackExchange sites are built using it, and StackOverflow is a very busy site indeed.
What you need to do first is measure performance; until you do that, you're just guessing at where the problem areas are.
So start with the browser - use a tool such as Firebug, or YSLOW, Google Chrome dev tools, whatever takes your fancy and run your site using the tool enabled. The tools can let you know how long things are taking to process eg requests, how long content is taking to download etc.
YSLOW will also give you some tips on anything it finds as being a bit slow e.g. you're making to many HTTP requests, you should consider minifying your CSS/JS files. You will get a general overview of how the site is performing and where problems could be.
To dig a bit deeper, use a tool like RedGate's ANTS Profiler, use the trial version and measure your website, and server side code, with that tool. There are other tools, though I'm not aware of any free ones.
My first question is that when its slow. Did you try your project in Local area network. Please check first there. If there slow then you need to improve little bit.
This slow performance depends on many things
such as large data load, multiple logic on one page etc.
Please let me know.
Thanks
Basit.

Crystal Reports vs SQL Server Reporting Services

I want to make a website. According to the requirements I have many simple as well as complex reports which may have more column to display sometimes. I haven't worked with the reporting in web. I want to know which is best from both of them according to my requirement.
Without actually knowing your requirements - my gut feeling would be to favor SQL Server Reporting Services.
Why?
It comes with SQL Server, so it's basically free (if you have SQL Server anyway)
it's quite capable in terms of rendering and exporting
it's also extensible with .NET code, if you ever need to
you can schedule reports at a given time etc.
Crystal Reports on the other hand
is a separate add-on you have to buy (and it's quite expensive, too)
it's a bit clunky and hard to use at times (in my opinion)
it doesn't integrate nearly as well with SQL Server and ASP.NET

DB advice and best practices for ASP.NET based web site?

I have a web site I developed for displaying the results of some data analysis work I did. It relied on ASP.NET for the front end and connected to a MySQL back end utilising Entity Framework and LINQ extensively.
I chose MySQL because I personally have used it in the past and like the database, but this resulted in some serious issues when I had to deploy it to a hosting provider (incompatible connectors, access rights, etc.)
I am now getting ready to redevelop and expand the site and I am looking for some advice to avoid the issues I had last time.
The new DB has to serve two roles. The first is to be a data provider for the charts that are the output of the analysis work. These tables are straightforward, almost flat files, with 10 tables. One table has roughly 200k rows of data the rest have aprox 1200 rows of data each. There are little references or queries between the DB tables, but there are a few. This data is updated periodically by a back end process and does not need to be added to or edited by the user.
The second role of the DB would be as a basic persistent store for a standard user management system. It would need to manage data for adding/ removing clients, user names, passwords, access rights. etc. No financial data or super secure data is involved.
What database approach would you recommend that would give me easy deployment and management at a web host and still allow me to use both Entity Framework and LINQ effectively.
Second, what tools/frameworks should I consider as I rewrite this system. It is very graphical and data focused. Presentation of charts and information is the key factor in this site. Are there any new technologies or frameworks that would add specific value to what I am doing?
A few notes. I am a one man shop and I maintain the entire system myself so I am less worried about enterprise level frameworks than other people. My focus is on the easy development and deployment of the site. Maintainability is also a key factor.
I am also an experienced C# developer, but new to ASP.NET and the web side of things. The first version of this site was a big learning experience. It was good, but I wasted an enormous amount of time on just understanding new technologies and approaches. I am very open to learning, but I can't afford the time to get my head around a complete paradigm shift.
I am looking forward to your thoughts, thanks.
Doug
The natural choice would be SQL Server. I'd guess by your description that you are way under the maximum space limit of the SQL Server Express edition. I of course supports Entity Framework and the drivers are part of the .NET Framework, so no problem with third party assemblies here.
This will also open up the possibility to host your app in the cloud (Azure) later on, because SQL Azure in fact is a Microsoft SQL Server, so there is no overhead in supporting that.
Regarding user management - ASP.NET has this all build in (Membership, Role and Profile provider) and also a SQL Provider for which default tables are available. So you don't have to design your tables by yourself and it runs very naturally on SQL Server.

tracking down slow performance of an ASP.NET web page

I want to find out the reason for slow performance of some web pages of an ASP.NET intranet website. the reasons could be many like large view state, number of round trips to the server and database, inefficient code in UI/middle tier etc. most of these slow pages are complex web pages with some third party controls, user controls.
what is the quickest way to find out what is causing the page to slow down without debugging each and every interaction on the web page and stepping through lines of code. will the code profilers like ANTS be of any help? or are there any better ways? there could be many factors for slow performance of a page, but I want to fix them in priority order.
thanks,
Rama
You can use a firefox addon named yslow whcih analyzes web pages based on Yahoo's performance rules.
If you want to check code performance then you can use a profiling tool.
For SQL there is SQL Server Profiler.
For .Net you can use ANTS Performance Profiler
Use Fiddler or HTTPWatch to profile the web application, this works with IE too..
And
I just came across a interesting post by john resig - deep tracing IE about the new client side profiler tool for IE. It is awsome & Its free.
You can get it here
If your web application is creating trace files then stop the web site, delete all archive trace files and restart the web site. It helped me to resolve the issue.
Try FastSQLDataSource. It helps when you need faster display of large amounts of data in your web application using grids, lists and other bound controls.
http://www.nitrosbase.net
It can work almost without coding or sometimes with no coding at all.
Some addtions:
Search for unproper Exception handling / throwing etc.
Search for left debugging code - one System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteIf in a large loop or dataset is devastating
search for multiple databinding - broken page life cycle
search for code smell - the shit smells before hitting the fan ...

3-Tier VB.Net Forms vs. Web Based ASP.Net Solution - Which will scale better?

I am on a project helping to analyze the load a VB.Net WinForms application can take. This app has been in production for several years and has many many products on it. We plan to add more products but see the client footprint rapidly increasing. This is contributing the degradation of performance on the system overall.
There is duscussion that moving the UI intensive portions of the app to ASP.Net it will reduce the client footprint and solve many of our issues.
My question which of the following will scale better in terms of performance and load?
- ASP.Net(VB) Web based architecture
- VB.NEt WinForms 3-tier architecture
Links to articles on the topic are also appreciated.
Additional Info
Client - Apparent issue is large memory footprint due to data caching (High cph utilization)
Middle Tier - web services that house BLC & DALC assemblies (Low utilization here)
Database - Multiple database that that serve data to the DALC via sprocs (Medium Utilization)
Deployment is not an issue, we have a very well developent methodology there.
Thanks in advance,
Freeon
Winforms will scale better than ASP.NET
B/c
a. when you use an ASP.NET client - (a Browser) you pay a price, html rendering - another price, Viewstate - a huge price.
about view state - it is a chunk of data that might grow more and more as long as you operate even on the same page.
You need to use special techniques in order to make a asp.net webform efficient (AJAX).
You don't have this on winform.
Anyway - a specific answer should be aware of your product functionality, architecture and design, so this is gust a general advice.
Not enough data...
In terms of a user interface a desktop application should out perform (by various measures) a web based one in all but the most trivial of cases - that's not to say that you can't produce a very decent and capable web application but even then Outlook Web Access is not Outlook on the desktop.
To further illustrate the point, look at the effort going into Silverlight and Adobe AIR which are attempts to provide desktop level capabilites with web level deployment.
So the question becomes one of asking what is it in the current desktop application that is causing the problem i.e. is it a deployment issue, a performance issue or something else?
If its deployment issue then that will suggest one set of solutions, if its a performance issue then things get a lot more interesting.
Either way, there is insufficient data to do anything other than generalise enthusiastically
With a web based application you can scale servers both up and out for both the web server itself and the database servers. I would think that a desktop based application would be somewhat limited in how much scaling can be done, along with the need to update each and every client installation when changes/bug fixes are done.
There are negatives about web based applications. They will live in a stateless enviroment, the UI maybe somewhat slower than a desktop installation. It is possible to create UI's that are very responsive using lots of Ajax/Javascript, but the development time for those RIA needs may be more than desktop development. Connectivity issues maybe be of a concern, along with user browsers and such.
Quick deployment though of updates is one huge benefit of a web based application. You only have to manage one installation rather than many.
Good luck with your project!

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