Devin Rader is the product manager for Web Clients at Infragistics, the leading provider of presentation layer tools, and the author of a number of books on ASP.NET and Silverlight. You can check out his blog at www.geekswithblogs.com/Devin.
As portals gain in popularity, both as consumer-focused information portals
and corporate collaboration tools, developers are increasingly being told to
integrate customized portal features. In this article, I'll take a look at
the solutions Microsoft offers for creating Web portals and how you can
extend these portals by building custom modules.
The Microsoft Web Portal Landscape
Microsoft currently offers three levels of portal creation technologies as
shown in Figure 1. The first and lowest level is ASP.NET 2.0's Web Parts
framework. This framework includes the core infrastructure needed to build a
basic Web portal such as base Web Part classes and Web Part management
classes. Although the framework lets you build a basic Web portal, it doesn't
include any pre-build W... (more)
Devin Rader is the product manager for Web Clients at Infragistics, the leading provider of presentation layer tools, and the author of a number of books on ASP.NET and Silverlight. You can check out his blog at www.geekswithblogs.com/Devin.
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