ASP.Net 2.0 Web Parts in Action: Building Dynamic Web Portals

345 Pages·2007·10.81 MB·English

by  Darren Neimke

ASP.NET 2.0
Web Parts in Action

ASP.NET 2.0
Web Parts in Action
Building Dynamic Web Portals
DARREN NEIMKE
MANNING
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To Bill Wilkinson, for teaching me to program

brief contents
Part 1 Portals and web parts 1
1 Introducing portals and web parts 3
2 Web parts: the building blocks of portals 32
3 Using web part connections 65
4 The Web Part Manager 96
5 Working with zones 127
6 Understanding personalization 158
Part 2 Extending the portal framework 199
7 Creating an enhanced editing experience 201
8 Useful portal customizations 229
9 Portal management 257
10 Into the future 282
appendix Creating the Adventure Works project 310
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contents
foreword xiii
preface xiv
acknowledgments xv
about this book xvi
about the title xix
about the cover illustration xx
Part 1 Portals and web parts 1
1 Introducing portals and web parts 3
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 What is a portal? 5
Anatomy of a portal 6 ✦ A portal example 8
1.3 Using the ASP.NET 2.0 portal framework 16
Components of the framework 16
1.4 Introducing Adventure Works Cycles database 18
What is the database? 18 ✦ You’re hired! 19
Getting our hands on data 21
1.5 Summary 31
2 Web parts: the building blocks of portals 32
2.1 Introduction 32
2.2 Exploring web parts 33
Discovering the GenericWebPart control 34
2.3 Understanding the WebPart class 38
Using custom controls 38 ✦ Creating web parts with user controls 42
2.4 Understanding web part internals 45
IWebPart 46 ✦ IWebActionable 48 ✦ IWebEditable 52
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