I will show you how I built a start page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.Net Ajax, .NET 3.0, Linq, DLinq and XLinq. I have logged my day to day development experience in this article and documented all the technical challenges, interesting discoveries and important design & architectural decisions. You will find the implementation quite close to actual Google IG. It has drag & drop enabled widgets, complete personalization of the pages, multi page feature and so on. It’s not just a prototype or a sample project. It’s a real living and breathing open source start page running at http://www.dropthings.com/ which you can use everyday. You are welcome to participate in the development and make widgets for the project.

Updates

• Jan 6, 2007: Scott Guthrie showed me how to improve ASP.NET AJax client side performance by switching to debug=”false” in web.config. It improves performance significantly. Read here
• Jan 5, 2007: Deployment problem discussed. Read here
• Jan 4, 2007: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) required as pre-requisit. Read here
• Jan 4, 2007: Some asked me if I am picking a fight with Google. I am not. I respect Google very much because they pioneered in this area and I am just a follower. Start Page is a really good project to show all these new technologies.

What is an Web 2.0 Ajax Start page

Read More : http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/MakingGoogleIG.asp

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