I want to thank INETA for sending Rob Howard (no relation to Ron Howard) to the Utah .NET User Group meeting tonight. His presentation on killer ASP.NET performance tips (available on his web site [Blackbelt ASP.NET slides/code]) was amazing...

..although I can't believe that he forgot about disabling ViewState where it wasn't needed. I pointed that small oversight out, and once he made the change, it got an extra 120rps out of his demo.

Other than that slight issue, I give his presentation five stars. While Microsoft may be scaling back in all the wrong places, helping presenters like Rob go around energizes the development community and makes it easier for us to make compelling solutions.

Now if Microsoft would just invest enough funds in testing so that canonicalization issues would stop slipping into their products...