ASP.NET: 8-day track: 3/3: Building & Deploying Web Applications

Course Overview

This presents the techniques and concepts you'll need to build efficient, full-featured Web applications. You'll learn to inter-operate with non-.NET code, to manage session state, to re-use code by creating your own controls, to improve performance with output caching, to debug your application and trace its activity, to use advanced Web services features, to configure and deploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, to handle multi-user data access conflicts, and to support mobile devices.

Audience

Developers who wish to extend their knowledge of ASP.NET applications and web services to an advanced level.

Prerequisites

ASP.NET and the .NET Framework - Level 2. Object-oriented programming knowledge is very helpful.

Course Outline

Managing State with ASP.NET

• Preserving State in Web Applications
• Page-Level State
• Using Cookies to Preserve State
• ASP.NET Session State
• Storing Objects in Session State
• Configuring Session State
• Setting Up an Out-of-Process State Server
• Storing Session State in SQL Server
• Using Cookieless Session IDs
• Application State

Creating New Controls in ASP.NET

• Two Kinds of User-Defined Controls
• Creating a User Control
• A More Complex User Control
• Creating a Custom Control
• Investigating the StateDropDownList Control

ASP.NET Caching and Performance Tuning

• Performance in ASP.NET
• Caching in ASP.NET
• Declarative Page Output Caching
• Programmatic Page Caching
• Caching Page Fragments
• Caching Data
• Monitoring Performance
• Additional Performance Tips

Tracing and Debugging in ASP.NET

• Tracing in ASP.NET
• Debugging ASP.NET Applications
• Debugging Multiple Languages

Advanced Topics in XML Web Services

• Digging Deeper into Consuming Web Services
• Using XML Shaping
• Using Web Services to Provide Common Output
• Transferring Binary Information Using XML Web Services

Configuring and Deploying ASP.NET Applications

• Deploying ASP.NET Applications
• Configuring an ASP.NET Application

Robust Data Handling with ADO.NET

• DataSets and XML
• Typed DataSets
• Optimistic Concurrency

Securing ASP.NET Applications

• Security Foundations
• ASP.NET Security Concepts
• Implementing Windows Authentication
• Form-Based Security
• Passport Authentication
• Securing Web Services

Supporting Mobile Devices with ASP.NET

• A Big Problem, and a Solution
• Introducing MMIT
• Investigating the Mobile Web Controls

ASP.NET: 8-day track: 3/3: Building & Deploying Web Applications / CM061167