Few days earlier I was trying to install Dropthings in my machine and learn this.Its easy if you already install before but quite hard if you try this for first time.And i have not found any screen shot based tutorial from internet that i can use and try to install this. Hope it works for and make a smooth path for you to start learning Dropthings.
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This framework is created by Omar Al Zabir
Overview:
Dropthings is a Personalizable Widget powered Web Portal
framework that demonstrates the power of
Ajax and Widget Framework
to build Web 2.0 websites as well as Enterprise Dashboards. You can
extend the fully functional site in any way you like. You can
build your own widgets, besides the built-in RSS, Twitter, Flickr, Weather, Stock, HTML and Static Content widgets. You can build widgets that
render data from your own databases
or collects data from your own webservices and renders them using
sophisticated rendering controls. Dropthings is an N-tier web app with
nearly
100% automated test coverage on the business
layer as well as 80% automated UI tests that cover all the UI behaviors.
It is a great ASP.NET foundation to build your own application upon,
benefiting from the highly extensible codebase that embraces
Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, Repository Pattern, Caching, Instrumentation, and Unit Testable code.
