Chapter 1. Introducing portals and web parts
Figure 1.1. This image shows a web page that contains two zones. The left zone contains the News and Financial web parts, whereas the right zone contains the Stocks and Weather web parts.
Figure 1.2. This example portal has two zones (numbers 1 and 2) between which you can drag web parts. There is also an editor that allows users to customize the properties of the web parts.
Figure 1.3. The New WebSite dialog in Visual Studio allows you to choose what type of project type to create and specify options for it, such as where the project will be saved to and what language will be used.
Figure 1.4. The controls for creating portal applications are contained in the Web Parts category within the Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox.
Figure 1.5. Viewing the page in design mode within Visual Studio provides an approximation of how it will appear when viewed in a browser.
Figure 1.6. When displayed in the designer, the title of each control is displayed just above the control.
Figure 1.7. Verbs associated with a web part
Figure 1.8. The EditorZone, with the AppearanceEditor displayed, allows you to change the appearance of the web part.
Figure 1.9. Employee count results
Figure 1.10. Employee hires by calendar year results
Figure 1.11. Employee count by department results
Figure 1.12. Sales YTD results
Figure 1.13. Creating a new class library project in Visual Studio 2005