Hello there,
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Pro, ASP.NET 2.0 in an attempt to produce a working sample of what Microsoft does in their web based CRM and Outlook client applications.
To elaborate, I an referring to how they use a treeview menu on the left side of the screen while loading a 'Content' window of sorts. In some cases the menu on the left appears to refresh, yet at the same time retain it's selection criteria. This leads me to believe it is using Masterpages with some type of authentication and session bound data.
I am curious only in direction to how I can accomplish this. Specifically, which technologies are used and the names of which ASP.NET categories I should research (IE: HTML Frames, masterpages, web parts?).
Working tutorials are always nice, but if you have any input at all, please do suggest it.
The reason I ask for this is because we are attempting to port one of our internal CRM's to a web-based CRM. My competencies are in VB/C/C++ (managed & unmanaged)/ASM. I do not have any experience working with HTML, JavaScript or anything that has to do with web-browser based content.
While I do appreciate pointers to good books, my goal is not to spend weeks, reading thousands of pages before being capable of accomplishing this task.
So I am attempting to accomplish this in the shortest time possible, to produce something basic with similar functionality that we can build upon as this development ages.
Any direction to how to accomplish this, likely simple, task would be greater appreciated as I seem to find myself in a technological gap.
Thankyou.