ASP.NET 2.0

Course Overview

Microsoft's .NET architecture is revolutionising Internet application development. This course will teach students how to master building data-driven Web applications and services with ASP.net, the next generation of Microsoft Active Server Pages technology.

Audience

This course is for all delegates interested in gaining a solid grounding in the use of Active Server Pages.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Successfully design the architecture of ASP.net applications
• Write ASP.net applications in VB.net, the successor to Visual Basic and VBScript (the course is also available using C# if required)
• Create Web forms with ASP.net Form Controls
• Work with ASP.net Server Controls to validate and process form submissions and perform other vital tasks
• Build database-driven applications with ASP.net and ADO.net
• Produce XML data from your ASP.net applications, and utilize ASP.net to parse XML data and store it in a database
• Declare and control Web applications with global.asax
• Maintain state for each user via ASP.net session management
• Understand the role of Web services and build your first data-driven Web services
• Successfully debug and deploy your ASP.net applications.

Prerequisites

Understanding of web development and programming techniques. Previous experience with a suitable programming language, e.g. Visual Basic, C# and a knowledge of HTML would be useful.

Course Outline

• Introducing ASP.NET 2005
• Conditionals and Additional Web Server Controls
• Data Types and More Control Flow Structures
• Arrays, Subroutines, and Functions
• Events in ASP.NET
• Introduction to Object Oriented Concepts
• Inheritance and Overriding
• Request, Response, and Server
• Introducing ADO.NET
• Handling Exceptions
• Working with Disconnected DataSets
• Inserting Records into the Database
• Data Drilldowns with Data Bound Controls
• Working with Stored Procedures
• Application Variables and global.asax
• Session Variables
• Introducing XML
• Producing XML from Database Data via ADO.NET
• Reading XML Data into a DataSet
• Importing XML into the Database
• Performing XSLT with ASP.NET
• Working with Validation Controls
• Regular Expression Validation
• Custom Validators
• User Controls
• Code Behind
• Assemblies
• Introduction to Web Services with SOAP

• Appendix A: SQL Refresher