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I'm developing an ASP classic site under Windows 7 (form a queue ladies). The problem is IIS seems to be heavily making use of its cache for both static and dynamic content which really conflicts with my 'make a small change, alt-tab, hit ctrl-F5' development style. Changes made to .asp files may take two or three refreshes to show up where as changes to .js files can take 20 times as many. How do I go about turning the caching off on my development machine?

Cheers.

in b4 stop using asp classic

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Click on the server name then go to output caching.

Click Add Cache Rule then type the extensions - .aspx, .aspx.vb, .aspx.cs, .js etc. (not sure if you can do all on one)

Then simply either tick the prevent all caching or untick user-mode caching and it should stop IIS from keeping a cache of the pages.

Next time you do a full refresh, it should get the files from the hard drive and not the cache/memory




I do not currently have a machine with IIS7 on that I can muck around with so I Googled and found the picture below:

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  • This sorted out my issue with caching the responses from a WCF service as well
    – ste-fu
    Dec 9, 2015 at 16:40
  • You just made my day William. Thanks for that, it totally fixed my issue. Cheers!
    – alexGIS
    May 9, 2019 at 22:21
  • Lot better answer given below, upvote it
    – Anton Shakalo
    Mar 3, 2020 at 14:31
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This answer helped me, (note: i'm using IIS8) link

I think its better to disable "Cache" of "Output Cache feature" by clicking the "Edit Feature Settings"

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    – slm
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  • @slm thanks for your advise. I'll try to add more detail later
    – Ata Iravani
    Apr 17, 2013 at 6:56
  • Thank you. I had enabled this a few months ago for testing and forgot about it. And the worst thing in the world is trying to edit a website that is feeding you old data, so you do not always see the live stuff. Very annoying. Thank you.
    – Wayne Barron
    Apr 8 at 21:49
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This blog might help: Response caching in IIS7.

It explains how this functionality can be controlled by editing system.webServer/caching section or by using IHttpCachePolicy intrinsic.

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