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Can i create MY Yahoo in ASP.NET

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ModicaR

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Jul 20, 2003
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Hi all, i am developing a web portal and i need some information.

i want to create a style similar to My Yahoo where you can add and remove the different modules to users own preference but i am unsure how best to do it. I am thinking of having them all sit on a table in a database linked between User and ModuleTypes with a table called UserModules sitting between them both. So for example, User module would look like this.

User Module
1 News
1 Sport
1 Weather
Etc

Obviously thats not exactly what it will look like but thats the general idea, so every time a user adds/deletes a new module this User Module table is updated. My problem whith the is is how do i update when they want to say add several moules or delete severeal modules at once, this is where my trail of thught ends. I am very new ASP.NET so i just want a bit of advice, such as is my database idea a pile of stinking poo or not.

Please Help,

Roberto
 
Have you looked into building custom server controls?

Perhaps you can have a module grid control which keeps track of "Modules" where the module class is an interface or abstract class. The news, sports, weather modules would be subclassed from "Module", and would be organized according to add- and delete- module methods of your module grid control.

I thought about doing something like this myself! :)
 
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