The Web Part Infrastructure Uncovered

In The Web Part Infrastructure Uncovered, Teun Duynstee describes and explains one of the most exciting features in ASP.NET 2.0. Web parts allow developers to create user interfaces on the web that can be personalized and modified by end users. Developers create visual components, business users can compose these into valuable applications. All of this comes free in the box with ASP.NET. In this book, you will learn how to use the web part framework as it is, but also how to leverage the framework to make web parts that are smarter and more versatile. We will create web parts that expose custom menus, have custom designer UI, parts that work together through connections, etc... We will also see how the ASP.NET web parts are used inside SharePoint (WSS 3 and MOSS 2007). Along the way, you will pick up some suggested practices and patterns as well!