Technology is constantly changing whether it’s the new .NET Framework or the latest variation of Python. It can be a challenge to keep up given limited time. Even getting the highly rated books from Amazon and reading them every chance you get. For me, it helps if I have a diagram that gives the overview of the specific technology. This helps me understand how it all ties together and relates. And is a quick list of what all my options are.
So I’ve been searching for a good diagram that shows IIS and ASP.NET together. Specifically, how the request flows through the system and how the response is returned. Along the way what are all the objects the application can access for information from the client. The best I have found so far is this description: Inside IIS & ASP.NET. I ended up printing this in color on 11×17 to follow it.
Along the way I learned that if you search MSDN on “Reference Poster” you can find several technical posters they have. There are also some good technical poster sites out there and cheat sheet sites. Here are some that I found useful:
| ASP.NET Page States |
| Microsoft Definition of Page States |
| ASP.NET Adaptive Rendering |
| Page Output Caching |
| ASP.NET MVC Request Handling |
| WCF Stack Diagram |
| Silverlight Control Hierarchy |
| WPF Data Driven Model |
| WPF Class Library Reference |
| .NET 4 Framework 4 What is new. |
| Interesting items: |
| Tech Posters & Cheat Sheets |
| Cheat Sheets |
| Visio stencils for IT Pro posters (when you need to make a nice Visio diagram). |
| Note: A quick search is to Google in Images on “.net diagram” or “.net reference poster”. |
Wow. Great consolidation of ALOT of info. Will defintely be referencing this, good work. The ASP.NET Page States links needs to be fixed though. Make sure you have a WPF cheat sheet….unless you want to fail the test