Check list – before release code to the production

1	e-Commerce web site	Turn off Session State, if not required
		Disable View State of a Page if possible
		Set debug=false in web.config
		Avoid Response.Redirect, use Server.Transfer for same site page navigation
		Use the String builder to concatenate string
		Avoid throwing exceptions, use validation framework for business exception
		Proper use of Use Page.ISPostBack
		Use Foreach loop instead of For loop for String Iteration
		Cleaning Up Style Sheets and Script Files . Minify JavaScript and CSS
		Check for CSS Expressions, remove if found.
		Remove Duplicate Scripts
		Place StyleSheets into the Header
		Put Scripts to the end of Document
		Make JavaScript and CSS External, No inline CSS or Javascripts in page.
		Page not found for JS, CSS or Image should not come
		Reduce Cookie Size
		Optimize Images using http://www.imagemagick.org/
		If new thread is created than thread must be in try.. catch. And check for deadlock situation.
		For subsequent request images, js and CSS should be fetch from cache.
2	WCF services/ Web Service	Individual services should not take more than one second.
		ASynchronized methods implemented if services are taking more than one seconds.
		Require caching is implemented or not.
		Exception is properly handling or not.
3	MOSS	Check for Delay load the core .js
		IIS Compression - Static compression should be on and Dynamic compression should be off.
		cache profile is created for output caching
		Disk-based Caching for binary large objects are enabled or not. Like <BlobCache location="C:\blobCache" path="\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js)$" maxSize="10" max-age="86400" enabled="false"/>
4	C#	Code review and optimization of code
5	Fiddler	Capture request and response for all the happy path scenarios and check for performance
6	ANTS profiler	Generate report for individual method and sun methods and perform analysis
7	Event viewer	Check that any error or warning are posted in event viewer due to code or not
8	BPA tools	Run and clean noncompliant
9	SQL Profiler	Generate trace file and analysis using Advisor.
10	Performance Analysis of Logs	Check for memory and CPU utilization.
11	Event Viewer	Configure MSDTC as per the MS recommendation.

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