Update

The project has been put on hold while I research BlogEngine.net and get my website to where I'd like to have it then I'll come back to application development.

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It's taking longer that I thought to get out the first release. ahhh.

 I've got the whole day tomorrow, hopefully I'll upload it.

I've enjoined following Omar's Dropthings project he is very generous to release an open source project like this and as far as I know it's the only asp.net open source start page of it's kind.

Now that he's done an overhaul I'm going to take another look at it and see what he's done.

I learned a great deal from the first version can't wait to see what's new.

Check out his book here

Read more about the overhaul here

Today I got the project working properly with FireFox and I am 98% Safari compatible.

You can download the code here (3.65 mb).

The issues where element.firstChild and element.nextSibling they where resolved using the following functions.

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I resolved the issue with master pages I was using clientId instead of uniqueid

here is a screen shoot of a web part being moved to another zone

Click here to download to latest version

Today I figured I'd add some style to the portal and while do so I ran into a bug. This bug showes up when you put the controls in a master page. I'm working on fixing the issue now and should have a fix soon.

Here is a screenshoot of the current theme.

I debating on removing the post back when a WebPart is dropped to another zone or zone index inside the current zone. It’s not needed and there are advantages on both sides. To post or not to post, well I’m thinking about, I’ll have an answer soon.

Here is the first version of the TFRPortal, it is still in beta but I figured I'd upload it anyways.

What I have done is create css friendly web parts with drag and drop support. The task of creating drag and drop support with divs took longer that I had anticipated, I had the bulk of it done in a few hours just the last like 5% took a day in itself. I think in the long run having css friendly web parts will save me time when I get to themes.

References I used while developing this project. I also debugged the .net framework to view how the Microsoft web parts worked.

1. Tableless WebParts and WebPartZones
2. Drag and Drop like iGoogle with ASP.Net Ajax Toolkit
3. Build Google IG like Ajax Start Page in 7 days using ASP.NET Ajax and .NET 3.0

Download the code here (955.55 kb)

The code download contains one main dll called TFR.Web.dll. This component consits of the following custom controls and components.

1. PartChrome.vb
2. WebPartManager.vb
3. WebPartManagerBehavior.js
4. WebPartManagerExtender.vb
5. WebPartZone.vb
6. ZoneButton.vb
7. ZoneLinkButton.vb

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