Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP. NET 3.5

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP. NET 3.5 Book Description

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures -- not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful 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 how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.

You learn how to: Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model


Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer


Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows


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, cache-friendly web services


Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be 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 problems
Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.

About the Author
Omar, a 24 years old Microsoft MVP, started programming at the ripe old age of ten, winning the Best Competitor Award in a nationwide programming contest. Since then, he's developed projects for companies like HP, Bank of America, Citibank and other companies in the US, Australia, Germany and Bangladesh. His love and passion for Microsoft technologies can be seen at his one-of-a-kind personal homepage "www.oazabir.com". Back in 2000, his website showed the potential of Rich Internet Application by simulating Windows 2000 user interface using HTML and Javascript. He is the Co-founder & CTO of Pageflakes Ltd, a web 2.0 Ajax Start Page which is an ASP.NET Ajax masterpiece itself. He also maintains a very popular blog on Microsoft Technologies at "msmvps.com/blogs/omar" where he talks about Ajax, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2005 and many more.

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