What is Sharepoint Portal

Share point portal in a enhancement of asp.net web parts. It is made for the rich user intractiveness. It provide you a customize platform where you can design your web portal within the seconds based on the templates. It is a part of microsoft concept for remove coding from web development.


Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), together with Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS), has made a tremendous impact in the past few years. WSS and SPS have enabled organizations to set up powerful collaboration systems and portals that let users efficiently work together to create and consume information


If you are familiar with ASP.NET or Windows Forms development, you should also be familiar with UserControls. A Sharepoint WebPart is very similar to a UserControl with respect to how it is built. Developers can simply add ASP.NET controls into the WebPart and include some code for implementing the business logic into the controls in the WebPart. Then the WebPart can be deployed into a specified location in the portal server, granting all of the Sharepoint users immediate access to the new WebPart in their web pages.

Code snippet:-

public class MyWebPart:Microsoft.Sharepoint.WebPartPages.WebPart

{
...
protected override CreateChildControls()

....

}