Performance considerations for making Web service calls from .aspx pages (831686)

SUMMARY

This article contains information about the Microsoft guide to Performance Considerations for Making Web Service Calls from ASPX Pages. This guide helps developers prevent performance problems and the devouring of thread-pool resources with an asynchronous approach to Web service calls that use Microsoft ASP.NET.

MORE INFORMATION

Performance Considerations for Making Web Service Calls from ASPX Pages contains the following sections:

The Scenario: Performance Devastation When Calling a Web Service from an ASP.NET Page
This section describes problems that you may notice when you make a Web service call from a middle-tier environment such as ASP.NET.
Tuning Around the Problem
This section describes configuration settings that you can use to work around the problems that were mentioned previously.
The Real Solution: Asynchronous Request Handling
This section describes how to design your Web applications to avoid the problems that were mentioned previously.

The The Scenario: Performance Devastation When Calling a Web Service from an ASP.NET Page section contains the following topics:

HTTP Two-Connection Limit
Thread Pool Limits
The Problem Is Not Restricted to Web Services

The Tuning Around the Problem section contains the following topics:

maxconnection
maxWorkerThreads and minFreeThreads
Windows XP Limitations

The The Real Solution: Asynchronous Request Handling section contains the following topics:

The First Piece in the Asynchronous Solution: Asynchronous Web Service Calls
The Second Piece of the Asynchronous Solution: Asynchronous PreRequestHandler Execution

REFERENCES

For more information about Web service calls, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservice/html/service07222003.asp