ASP.NET 4 Social Networking Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Social Networking
Chapter 2: An Enterprise Approach to our Community Framework
Chapter 3: User Accounts
Chapter 4: User Profiles
Chapter 5: Friends
Chapter 6: Messaging
Chapter 7: Media Galleries
Chapter 8: Blogs
Chapter 9: Forums
Chapter 10: Groups
Chapter 11: User Interactivity
Chapter 12: Moderation
Chapter 13: Scaling
Appendix: Comparing ASP.NET MVP with ASP.NET MVC
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Social Networking
• What makes this topic so important
• Communities Galore
• Once I have my own social network, then what?
• Customer service
• Content moderation
• Growing infrastructure requirements
• POST and SLATES
• Our social network—Fisharoo
• This book's approach
• Problem
• Design
• Solution
• Features of our social network
• Accounts
• Profiles
• Friends
• Messaging
• Media galleries
• Blogging
• Forums
• Groups
• Comments
• Tags
• Ratings
• Mark as Answer
• Voting
• Medals
• Framework
• Scaling up
• Summary

• Chapter 2: An Enterprise Approach to our Community Framework
• Application design
• Key principles
• Layered architecture
• Layers
• Tiered architecture
• Domain-driven Design
• Important aspects
• Ubiquitous language
• Entities
• Value objects
• Services
• Modules
• Aggregates
• Factories
• Repositories
• Entity Framework
• Repository pattern and Entity Framework
• Building Extensibility using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
• Model View Presenter pattern
• Model
• View
• Presenter
• How it works
• Creating the .NET Solution
• Presentation layer
• Components layer
• Configuration
• Cache
• Session
• Redirection
• Email
• Error handling and logging
• Data Access layer
• Summary

• Chapter 3: User Accounts
• Problem
• Design
• Registration
• Accounts
• Password strength
• Terms and conditions
• reCAPTCHA
• Email confirmation and verification
• Security
• Permissions
• Password encryption/decryption
• Logging in
• Password reminder
• Manage account
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• The Accounts table
• The Permissions table
• The AccountPermissions table
• The Terms table
• Creating the relationships
• Implementing the data access layer
• Update Model from Database
• A Data Context wrapper
• Building repositories
• The other repositories
• Implementing the application layer
• Extension methods
• Implementing the domain layer
• Implementing the presentation layer
• Model view presenter
• Registration page
• Email verification
• Password recovery
• Edit account
• Implementing security
• Summary

• Chapter 4: User Profiles
• Problem
• Design
• Profile
• Manage profile
• Avatar
• Custom avatars
• Gravatar
• Public profile
• Custom homepage
• Privacy
• News feed
• Solution
• Revisiting the Solution Structure
• Implementing the database
• The Profiles table
• Level of experience
• The Attributes table
• The Privacy table
• The Alerts table
• Setting up the data access layer
• Entity classes
• Building repositories
• Implementing the services/application layer
• ProfileService
• Account service
• Privacy service
• Alert service
• Other services
• Implementing the presentation layer
• Privacy
• Manage profile
• Avatar
• Public profile
• News feed/Alerts

• Summary

• Chapter 5: Friends
• Problem
• Design
• Friends
• Finding friends
• Searching for a friend
• Inviting a friend
• Importing friends from external sources
• Sending an invitation
• Adding friend alerts
• Interacting with your friends
• Viewing your friends
• Managing your friends
• Following your friends
• Providing status updates to your friends
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• The friends table
• Friend invitations
• Status updates
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• FriendService
• AlertService
• PrivacyService
• Implementing the Presentation layer
• Searching for friends
• Invite your friends
• Outlook CSV importer
• Confirm friendship
• Show friends
• Friends on profile
• Status updates
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Messaging
• Problem
• Design
• Messages
• Recipients
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• Messages
• MessageRecipients
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• Implementing the services/application layer
• MessageService
• Email
• AlertService
• FriendService
• Implementing the presentation layer
• New message
• Default (or Inbox)
• Read message
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Media Galleries
• Problem
• Design
• Files
• Folders
• File upload
• File system management
• Data management screens
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• Files
• File system folders
• File types
• Folders
• Folder types
• Account folders
• Account files
• Folder files
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• Implementing the services/application layer
• FolderService
• Implementing the presentation layer
• File upload
• Photo albums
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Blogs
• Problem
• Design
• Blogs
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• Blogs
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• Implementing the services/application layer
• AlertService
• Implementing the presentation layer
• Latest blog posts
• My Blogs
• Fancy URL support
• View post
• Create or edit post
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Forums
• Problem
• Design
• Categories
• Forums
• Threads and posts
• Friendly URLs
• Alerts
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• Categories
• Forums
• Posts
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• Implementing the Services/Application layer
• BoardService
• AlertService
• Implementing the Presentation layer
• Default.aspx
• URL routing
• ViewForum.aspx
• ViewPost.aspx
• Post.aspx
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Groups
• Problem
• Design
• Groups
• GroupMembers
• GroupTypes
• GroupForums
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• Groups
• GroupMembers
• GroupTypes
• GroupForums
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• GroupRepository
• GroupToGroupTypeRepository
• GroupForumRepository
• GroupMemberRepository
• GroupTypeRepository
• AccountRepository
• GetAccountsToApproveByGroupID
• Implementing the services/application layer
• GroupService
• AlertService
• Redirector
• WebContext
• Implementing the presentation layer
• ManageGroup
• Members
• Default
• URL routing
• ViewGroup
• MyGroups
• Forum enhancements
• Summary

• Chapter 11: User Interactivity
• Problem
• Ratings
• Tagging
• Commenting
• Mark as answer
• Voting
• Medals

• Design
• Ratings
• Tags
• Comments
• Voting
• Medals

• Solution
• Implementing the database
• SystemObjects
• Ratings
• System object rating options
• Tags
• System object tags
• Comments
• Votes and Mark as Answer
• Medals
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• RatingRepository
• SystemObjectRatingOptionRepository
• TagsRepository
• SystemObjectTagRepository
• CommentRepository
• BoardPost Repository
• Implementing the services/application layer
• TagService
• Extensions
• AccountService
• WebContext
• Configuration
• Implementing the presentation layer
• Comments Page
• Ratings Page
• Tags Page
• Votes page
• MarkAnswer page
• Medals page
• Installing the new user controls
• Tags page

• Summary

• Chapter 12: Moderation
• Problem
• Community moderation
• Gagging users
• Dynamic filter
• Design
• Moderation
• Gags
• Filtering
• Solution
• Implementing the database
• Moderations
• Gags
• ContentFilters
• Creating the relationships
• Setting up the data access layer
• Building repositories
• Implementing the services/application layer
• ContentFilterService
• Implementing the presentation layer
• Moderation
• Gagging
• Filtering
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Scaling
• Problem
• Design
• Solution
• Tiered architecture
• Scaling with two-tiered approach
• Scaling with multi-tiered approach
• Presentation and application tier scaling
• Layered architecture validation
• Service enabling business logic
• Web farming
• Caching
• Caching—AppFabric solution
• Caching—MemCached solution
• Configuration
• Where do I start?
• Email
• Creating services to send email
• The database
• Services
• Serializing email
• Connecting the new DBMailQueueService
• The queue
• Processing the queue
• Alerts
• Database tier scaling
• Flagged for delete
• Indexing
• Partitioning
• Gotchas
• Searching
• Getting Lucene.NET
• Building indexes
• Building the search
• Summary

• Appendix: Comparing ASP.NET MVP with ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Web Forms
• Web presentation patterns
• Page cache
• Page controller
• Model view presenter
• Model view controller
• Front controller
• Intercepting filter
• ASP.NET MVC
• Choosing between MVP and MVC
• Summary

• Index