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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets
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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets

by Mattijs Perdeck
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
10h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring compression in IIS 7

In this section, we'll see how to use compression in IIS 7. If you use IIS 6, skip to the Configuring compression in IIS 6 section.

Switching on compression in IIS 7 by itself is fairly easy. However, the moment you try to use some of the more advanced features, you find yourself using the command prompt or modifying a configuration file.

Here, we'll first switch on compression, and then get into those more advanced features.

Installing the dynamic content compression module

If you want to use compression for dynamic files, first install the dynamic content compression module. The steps to do this are different depending on whether you use Vista/Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008.

On Windows Server 2008:

  1. Click Start ...
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