Hi, We are working on a Portal site which consists of multiple pages loaded in the home page. Those are basically loaded in Iframes/ASCX controls (ASP.NET 1.1). Each of the pieces are called Portlets (visually similar to Webparts). Now to revamp and upgrade this, Webparts has been considered for evaluation. First priority is the perfromance benefits. Currently each of the iframes holds pages from different Virtual Directories as well. Those pages are loaded with huge data as well. Also, there are soem static HTMLs loaded in some iframes. So I want to know about the followings - 1. Upgrading to ASP.NET2.0 with Web Parts will improve the performance or not. Does web parts load individual webparts simultaneously? 2. Hosting pages from different application (or virtual directories) is possible in Webpartts?
Also, any reference or case study is also highly appreciated.
