Chapter 15. Portals

IN THIS CHAPTER

Now that you've learned how to build and use Web Services, you'll be building an application that ties together a variety of Web Services into a single portal application built using ASP.NET. This application will be able to do the following:

  • Allow new users to register automatically

  • Retrieve the weather for a particular ZIP code

  • Retrieve information about a user's stocks

  • Retrieve news headlines from a variety of news sources

  • Allow the user profile to be edited to change the information being displayed in the portal page

The profile information will be stored in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, but ...

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