Progress on my Web Parts book
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During the Christmas break I managed to get two of the chapters for my book on ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts written. The chapters that I wrote were chapter five (Zones) and chapter six (Personalization) and were the last of what I refer to as the "building block" chapters. In a nutshell, the building-block chapters are designed to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of the key, heavy-lifting members of the portal framework
By the end of chapter six the reader has a very good understanding of each of these members of the framework and understands the key points of extensibility for each of them. The remaining four chapters are designed to be task based tutorials that build upon the knowledge gained in the building block chapters to build application services over the portal framework. I refer to these chapters as the "Application Services" chapters. Tasks that are included in the Application Services section include things such as:
- Managing the web portal
- Displaying content in dialog windows
- Creating workflow solutions using the portal framework
- Implementing AJAX-style behaviors in the portal framework
Many of the features that are implemented Application Services section are build to mimic features that can be found on popular modern portals such as:
http://Live.com
http://Google.com/ig
Sharepoint V3
If everything goes according to plan I should finish the writing process by early March.