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

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Course Overview

This course provides the necessary skills and techniques to design and write scalable, robust and secure Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework. You will gain in-depth technical knowledge of ASP.NET and its related technologies and obtain practical insights into developing enterprise-scale, data-driven Web applications. Throughout the course you will be building a fully functional ASP.NET 3.5 web solution, using best practices including writing secure code to protect against potential malicious attacks.

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.) Note that existing ASP.NET 1.x developers should attend the QA-IQ course 'Accelerated Migration to ASP.NET 3.5' (QAASPMIG-35).

Course Outline

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 ControlsUrlRewriting

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

Building Effective ASP .NET 3.5 Web Applications using Visual Studio 2008 / ASPNET-35