Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

Wow this is a great book.

When I first opened up 'Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5' I expected this 2 be just any old ASP.NET web development/admin book but I was very pleasantly surprised.

Brevity is the champ here, with this book coming in at just under 300 pages but man the content is dense. The focus is on managing & developing your ASP.NET 2.0 portal (as the title suggests). Here's a McKinnon Overview:

01. Introducing Web Portals
02. Architecting the Web Portal
03. Building the Web Layer Using ASP.NET AJAX
04. Building the Data & Business Layers Using .NET 3.5
05. Building Client-Side Widgets
06. Optimizing ASP.NET AJAX
07. Creating Good Web Services
08. Improving Server-Side Performance
09. Improving Client-Side Performance
10. Solving Common Challenges

The focus is on portal development but I feel that all the content within is applicable 2 all .NET web developers. Applying Web 2.0 concepts, you will learn how 2 architect more efficient solutions in todays web world. You will learn the ins & outs & it will be fun at that.

Great book, pick it up today.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

This book is very well written. It provides lots of good tricks 2 handle real-world problems that come up when developing a website. One of the best ASP.NET books I have read. It is about developing a website all the way through, not about explaining the newer technologies. Not 4 beginners.

With this book Author has set bar very high on how 2 write technical books. It dose a good job of explaining finer points of all technologies involved in AJAX asp.net programming in the context of building portal. Its a must read if u are looking 4 techniques 2 build high performance web sites.

Great list of details you need 2 address 2 create a scalable, fully functional website with all the gadgets you've seen but never known how 2 incorporate into your web site. Must read book.

Very good book, the website provided by the book inspires me 2 learn more about ajax.

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 & other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how 2 develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability & security pressures -- not just 4 mass-consumer homepages, but also 4 dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation 4 enterprises. Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder & CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how 2 develop portals similar 2 My Yahoo!, iGoogle, & Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ & .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"), & walks you though the design & architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, & 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, & use ASP.NET 3.5 2 build the server-side part of the web layer Use LINQ 2 build the data access layer, & Windows Workflow Foundation 2 build the business layer as a collection of workflows Build client-side widgets using JavaScript 4 faster performance & better caching Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework 4 faster, more dynamic, & scalable sites Build a custom web service call handler 2 overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 4 asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendlyweb services Overcome JavaScript performance problems, & help the user interface load faster & be more responsive Solve scalability & security problems as your site grows from hundreds 2 millions of users Deploy & run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, & 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 & enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common 2 web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready 2 build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.