Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
TITLE : Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Omar AL Zabir (Author)
PUBLISHER : O’Reilly Media publisher
ISBN : 0596510500
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : January 11, 2008
LANGUAGE : English
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-friendlyweb
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.
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