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Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET

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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 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures -- not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises.

Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .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 ), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.

You learn how 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 and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.

307 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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Omar AL Zabir

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He is the Head of Engineering & Design for Retail CRM Delivery Unit in BT, living in London, UK.

He did his diploma on Islamic Studies from Islamic Online University. He learnt Arabic and Quran Tafsir from Aziz Muhammad of Egypt's Al-Azhar University.

He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and doing his M.Sc in Software Engineering at Oxford.

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