Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

"If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This guide provides a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. It teaches you 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 home pages, 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 through the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved."--BOOK JACKET.AL Zabir, Omar is the author of 'Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5', published 2007 under ISBN 9780596510503 and ISBN 0596510500.