| |
| |
| Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 | |
| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Who This Book Is for | |
| |
| |
| How This Book Is Organized | |
| |
| |
| What You Need to Use this Book | |
| |
| |
| Conventions Used in This Book | |
| |
| |
| Using Code Examples | |
| |
| |
| Safari#xAE; Books Online | |
| |
| |
| How to Contact Us | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introducing Web Portals and Dropthings.com | |
| |
| |
| |
| Defining a Web Portal | |
| |
| |
| |
| Defining a Web 2.0 Portal | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using a Web Portal | |
| |
| |
| |
| Navigating Dropthings | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using ASP.NET AJAX | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Architecting the Web Portal and Widgets | |
| |
| |
| |
| Object Model | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using a Widget Framework | |
| |
| |
| |
| Adding Widgets | |
| |
| |
| |
| Maximizing the First-Visit Experience | |
| |
| |
| |
| Rendering a Second-Visit Experience | |
| |
| |
| |
| Improving ASP.NET AJAX Performance | |
| |
| |
| |
| Adding Authentication and Authorization | |
| |
| |
| |
| Preventing Denial-of-Service Attacks | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building the Web Layer Using ASP.NET AJAX | |
| |
| |
| |
| Implementing the Start Page of a Web Portal | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building a Custom Drag-and-Drop Extender for a Multicolumn Drop Zone | |
| |
| |
| |
| Implementing WidgetContainer | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building Widgets | |
| |
| |
| |
| Page Switching: Simulating a Nonpostback Experience | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using the Profile Object Inside a Web Service | |
| |
| |
| |
| Implementing Authentication and Authorization | |
| |
| |
| |
| Implementing Logout | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building the Data and Business Layers Using .NET 3.5 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introducing LINQ to SQL | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building the Data Access Layer Using LINQ to SQL | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building the Business Layer Using WF | |
| |
| |
| |
| Implementing the DashboardFacade | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building Client-Side Widgets | |
| |
| |
| |
| Delaying Server-Side Widget Loading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Content Proxy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building a Client-Side RSS Widget | |
| |
| |
| |
| Building a Client-Side Flickr Widget | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Optimizing ASP.NET AJAX | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Creating Asynchronous, Transactional, Cache-Friendly Web Services | |
| |
| |
| |
| Scalability Challenges with Web Services | |
| |
| |
| |
| Asynchronous Web Methods | |
| |
| |
| |
| Modifying the ASP.NET AJAX Framework to Handle Web Service Calls | |
| |
| |
| |
| Developing Your Own Web Service Handler | |
| |
| |
| |
| Making an Asynchronous and Cache-Friendly Proxy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Scaling and Securing the Content Proxy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Improving Server-Side Performance and Scalability | |
| |
| |
| |
| Instrumenting Your Code to Identify Performance Problems | |
| |
| |
| |
| Optimizing the HTTP Pipeline | |
| |
| |
| |
| Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 Before Going Live | |
| |
| |
| |
| Optimizing Queries in the ASP.NET Membership Tables | |
| |
| |
| |
| Optimizing the ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 Profile Provider Before You Go Live | |
| |
| |
| |
| ASP.NET Production Challenges | |
| |
| |
| |
| Redirecting Traffic from an Old Web Site to a New One | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Improving Client-Side Performance | |
| |
| |
| |
| Understanding Web Caching | |
| |
| |
| |
| Content Delivery Networks | |
| |
| |
| |
| Optimizing Internet Explorer JavaScript Performance | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reducing the Web Service Call Payload | |
| |
| |
| |
| Loading the UI on Demand | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Read-Ahead Caching for Ajax Calls | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hiding HTML Inside | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Solving Common Deployment, Hosting, and Production Challenges | |
| |
| |
| |
| Deploying Your Web Site in a Web Farm | |
| |
| |
| |
| Thirteen Production Disasters That Could Happen at Anytime | |
| |
| |
| |
| Choosing the Right Hosting Provider | |
| |
| |
| |
| Choosing a Web Site Monitoring Tool | |
| |
| |
| |
| Configuring Proper Performance Counters | |
| |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| Colophon | |