The framework includes Visual Studio Wizards to help you easily get started creating producers and portlets. Wizards are provided for creating producers and portlets in either VB or C#. Portal developers can use .NET and the popular Visual Studio development environment to rapidly create rich, interactive and standards-based portlets that plug-and-play with any WSRP-compliant portal.

The framework provides a compact footprint that does not require the installation of a portal or use proprietary services and content management systems allowing for easy deployments of portlets within the organization. New portlets can be added to existing WSRP producers without having to stop the producer web services.

The NetUnity WSRP Portlet Framework for .NET is a comprehensive portlet development framework and run-time based on open standards and .NET. The Framework allows developers to rapidly create rich, interactive and standards-based portlets that plug-and play with any WSRP-compliant portal regardless of the location or platform. For companies that develop in Microsoft .NET and are planning or using an enterprise portal implementation, the NetUnity WSRP .NET Framework allows them to build applications and content for any portal that supports the WSRP standard.

The framework includes an extensive .NET class library implementing the WSRP standard. A basic WSRP compliant portlet including a producer can be implemented in as little as 5 lines of code. Developers familiar with using attributes in .NET and using the Request/Response metaphor in ASP.NET will feel right at home using the WSRP .NET Framework classes. The framework makes programming WSRP compliant portlets as simple as possible without compromising any part of the WSRP specification.

New in release 1.5 is extensive support for ASP.NET. Developers can implement WSRP portlets using any number of ASP.NET pages including support for the form designer, postbacks, view state and event handling. Navigate or redirect between an unlimited number of ASP.NET pages within a portlet or re-use the same page in multiple portlets for extremely rich portlet content and interactions.