Building a Web 2.0 Portal With Asp.net 3.5
by Al Zabir, OmarFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-12-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary
Web 2.0 entrepreneur and Microsoft MVP Omar Zabir shows ASP.NET 2.0 developers how to build a cutting edge web portal using ASP.NET, the Microsoft AJAX Framework, Silverlight, and .NET 3.5. First title to show ASP.NET developers how to implement Web 2.0 principles and practices, using post-ASP.NET 2.0 technologies, including ASP.NET AJAX, .NET 3.5 and Silverlight:Many experienced ASP.NET 2.0 developers are under increasing pressure from customers and clients to provide them with the functionality and user experience found at Ajax-enabled sites such as PageFlakes, Google Start and others. Programming Web 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX and .NET 3.0 assumes readers have mastered the core functionality of ASP.NET 2.0 and are looking for the new skills they need to take their sites to the next level. Newer technologies covered by the book include ASP.NET AJAX, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, LINQ and more. Written by Pageflakes co-founder and Microsoft MVP Omar AL Zabir:Omar AL Zabir is co-founder of PageFlakes (http://www.pageflakes.com/ ), an award-winning Start page. He maintains a popular blog on Microsoft technologies (http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/) and frequently contributes articles to (see The Code Project ). Includes a complete Web 2.0 application built using Microsoft technologies and services:Building a Web 2.0 Portalincludes code for a complete sample application that demonstrates how ASP.NET AJAX, .NET 3.5 and other technologies from Microsoft and third parties can be used to build a state of the art customer facing or enterprise portal. Code will be available for free download from the book site and from a site maintained by the author.
Author Biography
Omar AL Zabir is the CTO and co-founder of Pageflakes, a Microsoft MVP, the author of a popular .NET blog (http://msmvps.com/omar), and a frequent contributor to Code Project. In 2006, Page flakes out-ranked iGoogle, Live.com, Netvibes, and Protopage in a review conducted by Seattle-based SEOmoz.org.
Table of Contents
| Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 | |
| Preface | |
| Who This Book Is for | |
| How This Book Is Organized | |
| What You Need to Use this Book | |
| Conventions Used in This Book | |
| Using Code Examples | |
| Safari#xAE; Books Online | |
| How to Contact Us | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introducing Web Portals and Dropthings.com | |
| Defining a Web Portal | |
| Defining a Web 2.0 Portal | |
| Using a Web Portal | |
| Navigating Dropthings | |
| Using ASP.NET AJAX | |
| Using C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 | |
| Summary | |
| Architecting the Web Portal and Widgets | |
| Object Model | |
| Using a Widget Framework | |
| Adding Widgets | |
| Maximizing the First-Visit Experience | |
| Rendering a Second-Visit Experience | |
| Improving ASP.NET AJAX Performance | |
| Adding Authentication and Authorization | |
| Preventing Denial-of-Service Attacks | |
| Summary | |
| Building the Web Layer Using ASP.NET AJAX | |
| Implementing the Start Page of a Web Portal | |
| Building a Custom Drag-and-Drop Extender for a Multicolumn Drop Zone | |
| Implementing WidgetContainer | |
| Building Widgets | |
| Page Switching: Simulating a Nonpostback Experience | |
| Using the Profile Object Inside a Web Service | |
| Implementing Authentication and Authorization | |
| Implementing Logout | |
| Summary | |
| Building the Data and Business Layers Using .NET 3.5 | |
| Introducing LINQ to SQL | |
| Building the Data Access Layer Using LINQ to SQL | |
| Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation | |
| Building the Business Layer Using WF | |
| Implementing the DashboardFacade | |
| Summary | |
| Building Client-Side Widgets | |
| Delaying Server-Side Widget Loading | |
| Content Proxy | |
| Building a Client-Side RSS Widget | |
| Building a Client-Side Flickr Widget | |
| Summary | |
| Optimizing ASP.NET AJAX | |
| Creating Asynchronous, Transactional, Cache-Friendly Web Services | |
| Scalability Challenges with Web Services | |
| Asynchronous Web Methods | |
| Modifying the ASP.NET AJAX Framework to Handle Web Service Calls | |
| Developing Your Own Web Service Handler | |
| Making an Asynchronous and Cache-Friendly Proxy | |
| Scaling and Securing the Content Proxy | |
| Summary | |
| Improving Server-Side Performance and Scalability | |
| Instrumenting Your Code to Identify Performance Problems | |
| Optimizing the HTTP Pipeline | |
| Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 Before Going Live | |
| Optimizing Queries in the ASP.NET Membership Tables | |
| Optimizing the ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 Profile Provider Before You Go Live | |
| ASP.NET Production Challenges | |
| Redirecting Traffic from an Old Web Site to a New One | |
| Summary | |
| Improving Client-Side Performance | |
| Understanding Web Caching | |
| Content Delivery Networks | |
| Optimizing Internet Explorer JavaScript Performance | |
| Reducing the Web Service Call Payload | |
| Loading the UI on Demand | |
| Using Read-Ahead Caching for Ajax Calls | |
| Hiding HTML Inside | |
| Summary | |
| Solving Common Deployment, Hosting, and Production Challenges | |
| Deploying Your Web Site in a Web Farm | |
| Thirteen Production Disasters That Could Happen at Anytime | |
| Choosing the Right Hosting Provider | |
| Choosing a Web Site Monitoring Tool | |
| Configuring Proper Performance Counters | |
| Summary | |
| Colophon | |
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