Entries for the 'Web Parts' Category

One of my favorite features in SharePoint is the ability to edit a web part page in a draft version, design the page layout and properties conveniently and finally publish all the changes. In ASP.NET web parts, this feature is not coming out of the box - when a content author commits any change to the page – the change propagates immediately and can be seen by all users. The drawback here is that designers/content authors are unable to complete a complete page design before making the changes visible. In this article I will show how to extend the Web Parts framework and create a Publishing Control that will add Draft & Publish functionality.

This is a sample application i've created for a presentation about ASP.NET personalization in a big Israeli financial institute. The application (click here to download) emphasizes how to build customized and personalized portal using ASP.NET web parts framework, inside you'll find example for a web parts page (IGoogle style) with different types of web parts including Asynchronous web parts (using ASP.NET AJAX 3.5), cached web parts, web parts skinning, web parts verbs and all the other neratives and building blocks of the web parts world.