ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action

Chapter 5. Working with zones

5.1	Introduction	127
5.2	Classifying zones	128
5.3	Custom rendering of zones	133
5.4	Using WebPartChrome	139
5.5	Explaining parts	143
5.6	Zone additions to the Adventure Works Portal	150
5.7	Summary	157

5.1. Introduction

Now that you have reached the half-way mark of this book, it may be helpful to stand back for a minute and see where you are. The previous three chapters have been reference chapters for the major web part controls within the portal framework. Each of those three chapters was written to provide a solid understanding of the major building blocks used when developing portal applications. To re-cap a bit, we first learned about the WebPart control and saw that it provides a way to display data that ...