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Building a Web 2.0 Web Site with ASP.NET

Building a Web 2.0 Web Site with ASP.NET. ...without Web Forms John C. Zablocki. John C. Zablocki. Application Architect at webloyalty.com Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University         john@zblock.net    . Agenda. Brief Overview of Web 2.0 Easy Web Graphics with Paint.NET

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Building a Web 2.0 Web Site with ASP.NET

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  1. Building a Web 2.0 Web Site with ASP.NET ...without Web FormsJohn C. Zablocki

  2. John C. Zablocki • Application Architect at webloyalty.com • Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University         john@zblock.net    

  3. Agenda • Brief Overview of Web 2.0 • Easy Web Graphics with Paint.NET • Web Forms and Web 2.0 • The Castle Project • Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery • Location, Location, Location • Tagging • RSS • Other Web 2.0 Goodies

  4. Web 2.0 Overview • Term first coined (and later trademarked) by Tim O'Reilly • Blanket term describing a set of common features • User generated content • AJAX • Social networking • APIs and mashups • SEO and AdSense

  5. Paint.NET • Found at http://www.getpaint.net/ • Written almost entirely in C# • Started out as a college project • Gradients • Backgrounds for block elements • Backgrounds on form elements • Shiny glass orbs • Reflected logos

  6. ASP.NET and Web 2.0 • Web Forms • Server controls produce poor HTML markup • ViewState can make a page really fat • Very obtrusive JavaScript

  7. The Castle Project - Briefly • http://www.castleproject.org • ActiveRecord • Implementation of ActiveRecord pattern • Layer on top of NHibernate ORM • Monorail • ASP.NET MVC framework • Offers several templating engines for views • Doesn't influence markup • Modeled after Action Pack from RoR world

  8. Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery • www.jQuery.com • www.visualjquery.com • JavaScript should interact with, but not interfere with HTML • jQuery offers support for many common JavaScript tasks • DOM traversing • Event binding • AJAX • Effects (animations, drag n' drop, etc...) • Many plugins available (validation, maps, etc.)

  9. Location, Location, Location • Open source support for location data and algorithms • Users love maps • Several mapping APIs (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, etc.) • jQuery has a mapping plugin, but limited API support • Mapstraction offers a common interface to several APIs • Changing map providers is simple (2 lines) • www.mapstraction.com

  10. Tagging • Let users categorize user created content (folksonomy) • Tagging Data Model • Tag Clouds • References • http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/04/tags-database-schemas.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29

  11. Other Goodies • Google Analytics - http://www.google.com/analytics • CVSDude - http://www.cvsdude.com • SlickRun - http://bayden.com/SlickRun/

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