Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5: Learn How to Build a State-of-the-Art Ajax Start Page Using ASP.NET, .NET 3.5, LINQ, Windows WF, and More

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. 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 (http://www.dropthings.com) 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 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. Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.Net 3.5 Warning: This book is meant for developers who already have prior knowledge of asp.net technology. This seems like such an interestingly good book for those who already have some knowledge of ASP.NET technology. I unfortunately did not have prior knowledge of asp.net. But having read through it I felt the author wrote very interesting stuff. I have since started learning asp.net 3.5, hopefully I will be able to grasp the concepts in taught in this text. If you are new to asp.net please buy asp.net beginner books like Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) written by Matthew Macdonald. Or get another very good asp.net text(ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed) written by Stephen Walter.