doing me ed in. (geeky)

Originally Posted by timwilky

So can anyone recommend an easy tutorial in using asp.net. I simply need to be able to work with request/response objects, manage state persistance/session variables etc.

Have a look at these tutorials Tim: http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/Tutorials.aspx
The articles section is also very good.

Originally Posted by timwilky

first question. I know .net does just in time compilation. first call on my developing app takes an age, subsequent calls are reasonable but not blinding. But why after some time of inactivity does it revert back to an initial first slow transaction.

Hard to tell , could be a number of things.
Slow database on creation of connections? Heavily used by other applications as well? The connection pool might be empty so .net needs to wait for an available connection in the pool.
Or everytime a session is started, there could be some code that "hangs" things a bit.

Originally Posted by timwilky

second question. How do I maintain an app running in order that I can create connection pools for reuse to back end data sources. All simple for my Java servlets but this .net stuff does not seem to be in that league. Or is it me missing something

Try to read about ADO.NET, the connection pool will be handled automatically for you.

- When using ADO.NET with SQL Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719770.aspx
- Or if you are using ADO.NET Oracle/OleDb/ODBC Api: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254502.aspx

Originally Posted by timwilky

first question. I know .net does just in time compilation. first call on my developing app takes an age, subsequent calls are reasonable but not blinding. But why after some time of inactivity does it revert back to an initial first slow transaction.

Dunno anything about this arena but is it possible that's some sort of caching issue, the period of inactivity allows the cache to be overwritten with other things, etc...