A friend of mine, Max Karpov, is partnering with Microsoft to host a Portals code camp. The material looks fantastic and I know the speaker is excellent! I met him at VS Live! back in February and have considered him a friend ever since. If you can make it to Charlotte, North Carolina on August 20th then you will not want to miss the event.
Theme: Web Portal Application development with Microsoft technologies. Sponsorship by Microsoft and my company, Faith Interactive.
Web Portals are not new to the scene, but enterprise adoptions to our technologies on a larger scale are just now beginning to take place. Microsoft has a number of products and technologies on the market to empower users to build web portals. SharePoint (SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) technologies are one of these products. The SharePoint community has grown and embraced the open-source nature of developing these products. One product that will be demonstrated was developed by Jan Tielen. His product is called SmartPart Web Part. Microsoft doesn’t provide official support but thousands of developers have embraced the development of SharePoint portals through the use of it.
In areas where SharePoint products fall short, for example ease of UI customization through skins and custom login mechanize, open-source DotNetNuke portal is a great solution. I will be sharing from my production experience (1) why I choose this product for large portal implementation in big corporations and (2) the lessons learned from my experiences.
Technology will never become stagnant and we can predict that the next version of ASP.NET 2.0 is just around the corner. It will include Portal Framework out-of-the box. The ability to code today in such a way that allows a smooth migration path is very important, so we will be examining the newer features of Web Parts framework and the best choices of technologies available today in order to escape the headache of a complete rewrite of portals.
Yes, the cost of the event is completely free and the quality can be likened to that of TechEd or VSLive.
Imagine a day jam-packed with fun that has the potential to fill you to the brim with web application portal technologies. We will be starting at 9:00 am and wrapping up by 7:00pm. Below are the titles of each track and a detailed explanation of what each will cover.
This initial session will set the tone for the rest of the day. I will uncover common design patterns using and building web portal applications. We will look at the problem from the perspective of a generic viewpoint in which we will isolate ourselves from the nitty-gritty implementation specifics of coding. Don’t fret. There will be more than enough code in the sessions following. You will leave not only with source-code good enough for production applications but also with the Design Pattern knowledge that transcends throughout technologies today. This session will also prove why technologies capable of managing information, such as SharePoint, will continue to be around for many years to come. It will lay the foundation for the rest of our sessions.
SharePoint Technologies consist of many parts and implement solutions for a wide variety of problems. How can we grasp such diverse technologies? This question will be answered as we walk through some of the topics listed below:
At the end of the day you will not only be able to develop/deploy custom Web Part but you will also become familiarized with the use of SmartPart development framework. All of our tips and tricks for customizing SharePoint are from on-the-scene production implementations.
Today, if you’re faced with the decision to implement web portal and you cringe at the idea or are unfamiliar with the process of how to implement SharePoint technologies you can use Open-Source product DotNetNuke Portal. (For more information, read DotNetNuke book). I will dismiss the myth that Visual Basic.NET code of DotNetNuke , isn’t too dangerous and can in fact be used by C# and even COBOL developers.
I will even go so far as to make a strong point to not modify the core portal code but rather use it as SharePoint and customize the UI and modules. The issues we will uncover are listed below:
ASP.NET 2.0 Portal Frameworks (Web Parts)
What will the technologies of tomorrow bring? How can we be prepared? The main purpose of this session is to prepare you to write code that can easily be modified to work under the newer ASP.NET 2.0.
We hope this wets your appetite. See you there!
Remember to fill in your evaluation forms at the end of the day for our drawing!!
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