Four ASP.NET Pages in Frames Vs. One ASP.NET Pages

[Manish]

Hello Group,

I have one problem in designing web application.

Currently i have application in asp.net which uses 4 frames in single
page and work on that frame. everytime only frames that need to be
updated is refreshed. Now as per i know frame are not good for
maintanance, programming etc. factors. But i have question is :

If i compose pages from this four pages in a single page and convert
all pages in to different control. Is that make my performance down ?

Because in frame application i only need to update frame which is
required and in here i must refresh whole page whenever anything
happens.

Thank You In Advance.
Manish

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

It depends.
It depends on how complex each of your frames are & how much server side
processing is required for each of them.
Of course there are ways you can optimize the performance so that you don't
have to regenerate the HTML for each control every time the page is
refreshed (although you will still have to re-transmit the HTML each time.)
Look into OutputCache.
Here's more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconoutputcache.asp