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