Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

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Название: Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

Автор: Omar AL Zabir

Издательство: OReilly

ISBN: 0-596-51050-0

Год: 2008

Количество страниц: 310

Формат: PDF

Размер: 5 Мб

Язык: Английский

Introduces you to the attributes of a web portal and to the applications that you

will learn to build throughout the book. Chapter 1 also shows you how ASP.NET

AJAX and .NET 3.5 are used in the product.

Chapter 2

Architecting the Web Portal and Widgets

Gives you an architectural overview of Dropthings.com. It also explains the wid-

get architecture and how to build highly decoupled web applications using wid-

gets. It touches on some performance and security challenges of Ajax web sites.

Chapter 3

Building the Web Layer Using ASP.NET AJAX

Gives a detailed explanation on how the web application is built, starting from the

homepage and the widgets. It shows how the drag-and-drop functionality is pro-

vided using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, how a real widget is built, and how ASP.NET 3.5

is used to build the server-side part of the web layer.

Chapter 4

Building the Data and Business Layers Using .NET 3.5

Shows how LINQ is used to build the data access later and .NET 3.0 is used to

build the business layer by extensively using Workflow Foundation.

Chapter 5

Building Client-Side Widgets

Shows how to build widgets using javascript for faster performance and better

caching. It shows how a content bridge or proxy service is built that allows wid-

gets to fetch content from external sources.

Chapter 6

Optimizing ASP.NET AJAX

Goes deep into Ajax-enabled principles for making sites faster, more cache

friendly, and scalable. It talks about browser specific challenges and many

under-the-hood techniques to get maximum performance out of the Ajax

framework.

Chapter 7

Creating Asynchronous, Transactional, Cache-Friendly Web Services

Shows you how to build a custom web service call handler for Ajax calls in order

to overcome some shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and enable your web ser-

vices to become asynchronous, transactional, and more cache-friendly. It also

talks about scalability and security challenges of web applications that rely

heavily on web services.

Chapter 8

Improving Server-Side Performance and Scalability

An ASP.NET 2.0 web application has many scalability and performance surprise

as it grows from a hundred-user to a million-user web site. Learn how to solve pe

formance, reliability, and scalability challenges of a high volume web site.

Chapter 9

Improving Client-Side Performance

Ajax web sites provide a lot of functionality on the client-side browser that intro

duces many browser specific challenges and javascript performance problem

This chapter provides many tips and tricks for overcoming speed and memor

problems on the browser and making the UI load faster and be more responsive

Chapter 10

Solving Common Deployment, Hosting, and Production Challenges

Last step of a web project development is to successfully deploy the product an

run it 24x7. Learn what it takes to deploy and run a high volume productio

web site solving software, hardware, hosting, and internet infrastructure prob

lems that can bring down your web site and cause great harm to your business.