Building Web2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

Chapter 1, Introducing Web Portals and Dropthings.com
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 widget architecture and how to build highly decoupled web applications using widgets. 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 provided 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 widgets 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 services 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 surprises as it grows from a hundred-user to a million-user web site. Learn how to solve performance, 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 introduces many browser specific challenges and JavaScript performance problems. This chapter provides many tips and tricks for overcoming speed and memory 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 and run it 24x7. Learn what it takes to deploy and run a high volume production web site solving software, hardware, hosting, and internet infrastructure problems that can bring down your web site and cause great harm to your business.

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