Building a Web 2.0 Portal with asp.net 3.5

Introduction

Dropthings–myopen Sourceweb 2.0 Ajax Portal has gone through a technology overhauling. Previously it is built using ASP.net AJAX, a little bit of Workflow Foundation and Linq to SQL. Now Dropthings boasts fullJQueryFront-End combined with ASP.net ajaxupdatepanel,Silverlight Widget, fullWorkflow FoundationImplementation on the business layer, 100%Linq to SQL Compiled QueriesOn the data access layer, Dependency injection and inversion of control (IoC) usingMicrosoft Enterprise Library 4.1andUnity. It also has a asp.net AJAX Web Test framework that makes it real easy to write Web Tests that simulates real user actions On AJAX Web pages. This article would walk you through the challenges in getting these new technologies to work in a ASP.net website and how Performance, scalability, extensibility and maintainability has significantly by the new improved. Dropthings has been licensed for commercial by prominent companies, BT including, Intel, Microsoft is, Business Government portal for citizens; Startups like Limead and many. So, this is serious stuff! There ' s a very cool open source implementation of Dropthings framework available atnational University of Singaporeportal.

Visit:http://dropthings.omaralzabir.com

If you are ' re very versed in asp.net, again. This exceptional guide gives your a master class in site building with ASP.net 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft Technol Ogies. You learn the Develop Rock-solid Web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every Scalability and security pressures--not just for Mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards to that deliver Content aggregation for enterprises.

Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.net 3.5 demonstrates Develop portals similar to my Yahoo!, IGoogle, and pageflakes using asp.net 3.5, asp.net AJAX, Windows Workflow foundatio N, LINQ and. NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled Portal prototype (available online atwww.dropt hings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.

You are learn to:
Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular N-tier, widget-based model
Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.net 3.5 to builds the server-side part of the web layer
Use LINQ to builds the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of Wo Rkflows
Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching
Get maximum performance out of the ASP.net AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites
Build a custom Web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.net AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, Cach e-friendly Web Services
Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and is more responsive
Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users
Deploy and run a High-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure proble Ms
Building a Web 2.0 Portal with asp.net 3.5 also presents Real-world asp.net challenges this author has solved in build ing educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to Web applications serving Users. If you are ready to build state-of-the art, High-volume Web applications, this book has exactly for you what.

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