But building a social networking site from scratch involves some complex logic, and some serious coding. This book shows how to build networks, social scalable enterprise-ready using ASP.NET. Do you want to build your own social network, is developing a social site for customers or employers, or just want a practical guide for developing complex ASP.NET applications then this book is ideal for you. The book begins with the planning of an important feature of our social network, and then build a 'community framework that will give our site a strong foundation and allow us to add all features of our social network. Along the road you will see LINQ, MVC, AJAX, and other features of ASP.NET 3.5 is used for practical purposes and interesting. What you will learn from this book? Make key decisions about the architecture and tools to use the Building 'community framework "a solid to give your site a strong foundation, the principles explored this framework will apply to large scale web applications Create a user account, create a licensing system, and Working handle password encryption with user profiles, and build relationships 'friends' between different user Let the user customize their profiles and communicate with each other understand the core concepts of LINQ to SQL and work with it in the neighborhood lined Moderate site, ensuring security, dealing with cross -site scripting (XSS), privacy, and propriety Using the Model View Presenter pattern in ASP.NET 3.5 to enable Test Driven Development Adding internal search engine to use SQL Server and Lucene.NET Working with the right design patters to create a durable scalable enterprise framework Approach Each chapter begins by showing the user experience we will make in that chapter. Complete social networking applications available for download from Packt website, for you to examine, learn, and modify. Who is this book written for? This book is written for ASP.NET and C # developers who want to build an enterprise class Social Network, both for their own business purposes or as contract work for other companies. This book assumes you have previous experience of developing web applications using ASP.NET 3.5, C # 3.0, SQL Server 2005/2008, and Visual Studio NET 2008; it focuses on topics that will appeal to developers out there - not on providing step. -By-step examples for details of each.