Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About the Title

About the Cover Illustration

1. Portals and web parts

Chapter 1. Introducing portals and web parts

1.1. Introduction

1.2. What is a portal?

1.2.1. Anatomy of a portal

1.2.2. A portal example

1.3. Using the ASP.NET 2.0 portal framework

What is the framework?

1.3.1. Components of the framework

1.4. Introducing Adventure Works Cycles database

1.4.1. What is the database?

1.4.2. You’re hired!

1.4.3. Getting our hands on data

1.5. Summary

Chapter 2. Web parts: the building blocks of portals

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Exploring web parts

The composition of web parts

Categorizing web parts

2.2.1. Discovering the GenericWebPart control

2.3. Understanding the WebPart Class

2.3.1. Using custom controls

2.3.2. Creating web parts with user controls

2.4. Understanding web part internals

2.4.1. IWebPart

2.4.2. IWebActionable

2.4.3. IWebEditable

2.5. Applying themes and styles

Adding styles to controls

Creating themes

2.6. Adding web parts to the Adventure Works Solution

Displaying all departments

Creating an Employees web part