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Building Effective ASP .NET 3.5 Web Applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Course_Reference: 
QAASPNET-35
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Summary: 

The course is presented as a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Instructions and solutions are provided in both C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 2008, enabling you to work with your choice of language. (Before attending, delegates must already know one of these .NET languages.)

PreRequisites: 

  • Delegates should have basic knowledge of HTML and web page creation. These skills can be obtained by attending Qas Building an Effective Web Site course
  • Delegates should have an existing knowledge of a .NET programming language (C#2.0/3.0 or VB 2005/2008). Delegates without these skills would benefit from attending a QA .NET programming language course.
  • Note that existing ASP.NET 1.x developers should attend the QA course Accelerated Migration to ASP.NET 3.5" (QAASPMIG-35). This does not exclude them from the other pre-requisites.

Objectives: 

  • Create file- and HTTP-based web projects using Visual Studio 2008
  • Use validation techniques to ensure input data accuracy
  • Use Master Pages and CSS to enforce design principles
  • Personalise web applications using profiles, themes and skins
  • Create modular user interfaces using web parts and user controls
  • Implement menus, wizards and other site navigation mechanisms
  • Diagnose problems and implement a coherent error handling architecture
  • Create data-driven and data-bound user interfaces using XML, relational data sources, and LINQ
  • Understand and manage state across and within page transitions
  • Implement authentication, authorisation and role based security using the ASP.NET 3.5 membership system and the login controls
  • Extend the pipeline using custom modules and handlers
  • Describe and implement ASP.NET AJAX functionality to provide a richer UI experience
  • Create and use simple Web Services

Module 1: Fundamentals

  • Internet fundamentals review
  • Application configuration
  • Processing model
  • Page execution
  • Event lifecycle
  • Object model overview

Module 2: Using Visual Studio 2008

  • Creating a Web Site
  • Project and solution structures
  • ASP.NET folder structure
  • Essential features for Web development
  • Understanding code separation
  • Copying and Publishing a Web Site

Module 3: Designing your web site

  • Overview of layout options
  • Creating common layout with Master Pages
  • Server controls overview
  • Stylesheet designer
  • Themes and Skins

Module 4: Validation and Error Handling

  • The need for validation
  • Validation on the Client and Server
  • ASP.NET validation controls
  • Ensuring correctness in posted data
  • Exception handling in ASP.NET

Module 5: Site Navigation

  • Navigation scenarios
  • Basic navigation
  • Crosspage postbacks
  • Accessing the previous page
  • Creating Wizards; Templating Wizards.
  • The Navigation API and Controls
  • UrlRewriting

Module 6: User controls and Web Parts

  • Introduction to Usercontrols
  • Overview of Custom Controls
  • Building common page parts
  • Web Parts

Module 7: Components and Architecture

  • Web architecture considerations
  • Component based development
  • Data access issues
  • Distributed architectural issues

Module 8: ADO.NET

  • ADO.NET managed providers
  • Configuring ASP.NET applications to use ADO.NET
  • Using XML data sources
  • LINQ

Module 9: LINQ

  • Object-Relational designer
  • LINQ to SQL

Module 10: Databinding and presentation

  • Data source controls
  • GridView, FormView, DetailsView
  • ListView, DataPager
  • Treeview

Module 11: Caching

  • Cache API
  • Caching data
  • Managing data refreshing - Cache dependencies
  • Output caching and substitution

Module 12: State Management

  • Managing state within a page
  • Managing state across pages
  • Managing state within a single visit
  • Managing long-term state across visits

Module 13: Securing access to Web applications

  • IIS authentication/authorization
  • ASP.NET authentication/authorization
  • Security objects
  • Scenario based best practice
  • Custom (Forms) authentication
  • Using the Membership and Roles APIs
  • Login controls

Module 14: Under the covers

  • ASP.NET pipeline
  • Writing Custom ASP.NET modules
  • Writing Custom ASP.NET handlers

Module 15: Web Services

  • Exposing a simple Web Service
  • Consuming a simple Web Service
  • Overview of WSE 3.0
  • Consuming a WCF service

Module 16: ASP.NET AJAX

  • AJAX Scenarios
  • Infrastructure
  • ASP.NET AJAX controls
  • Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX script library
  • Consuming a Web Service from the client

Description: 

The course is presented as a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Instructions and solutions are provided in both C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 2008, enabling you to work with your choice of language. (Before attending, delegates must already know one of these .NET languages.)

Keywords: 
Building Effective ASP,ASP .NET 3.5,Web Applications,Microsoft,Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

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