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About the Wilson WebPortal About the Wilson WebPortal
The WilsonWebPortal is a simple-to-use Web Portal and Application Framework built on ASP.NET v2.0 and O/R Mapping.  Like other web portals, it allows you to run multiple sites from a single installation, and to create new data-driven pages with varying types of content with ease at any time.  And like other application frameworks, it automatically provides core features like membership, security, navigation, and logging, freeing you to be far more productive.  And like similar systems, some will find the base set of modules more than sufficient for their content, while others will appreciate the simplicity and flexibility provided to create their own.

So why use the WilsonWebPortal?  Each single group of users and roles can be shared across multiple portals, which can make membership much easier to maintain while still providing unique content.  Each page is created with a user friendly url, and you can also map additional urls to existing pages, with or without specific query strings.  Each module can define its own set of actions and not be restricted to a pre-defined set like edit and delete, and each action can be assigned a right limited by roles.  The included modules are also very easy to both use and customize, and are already very full-featured, so you will be able to get a site up quickly.

But don't forget specifically being built on ASP.NET v2.0!  This means that master pages are used for portal skins, and standard themes with css and control skins are used for consistent design and personalization.  This also means that custom providers are included for membership, roles, profile, sitemap, and web events, so this is truly built for ASP.NET v2.0 and not just ported to it.  That enables you to use both the standard controls for login, passwords, menu, sitemappath, and treeview, as well as any other 3rd party controls built for the provider model.  And the little known web events model automatically gives you full configurable logging.

And don't forget the underlying architecture, designed from the ground up around best practices, instead of borrowing and/or porting from an existing system.  The C# codebase is intended to be as simple as possible, so its both flexible and extendible, while being fully .NET v2.0 with generics and nullable types.  All core entity objects are loaded and persisted with the ORMapper, which gives the ultimate in flexibility and productivity, while allowing database portability also.  Finally, things like performance, security, and content searching are all built into the core framework, and are not just another afterthought, so the result is a real joy to use.