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(ASP.NET: Creating Web Pages | ASP.NET: Buildling and Deploying)

Course includes 63+ hours of total training time...

• 12 modules of training
• Over 21 hours of media run time
• Over 950 pages of printable courseware
• Step-by-step hands-on-labs
• Sample code

ASP.NET: Creating Web Pages and XML Services using Visual C# .NET

In this course, you will learn how to use Visual Studio .NET and Visual C# .NET to build ASP.NET Web pages and XML Web Services. You will gain an understanding of the new architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the new server controls. You will also learn how to use ADO.NET to create data-driven ASP.NET Web forms.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Use ASP.NET server controls to generate HTML and to execute event procedures.

• Validate user input with the ASP.NET validation controls.
• Retrieve and manipulate data using ADO.NET.
• Use the DataList, Repeater, and DataGrid controls to create attractively formatted, interactive, data-bound lists and tables.
• Create and consume XML Web Services.

This course assumes that students have already been introduced to Visual Studio .NET and Visual C# .NET, and have a basic understanding of the .NET Framework. Some prior experience with Web development will be helpful.

Introduction to ASP.NET

• A Review of Classic ASP
• ASP.NET Web Applications
• Rendering HTML with Server Controls
• Using ASP.NET to Deliver XML Web Services

Working with Web Forms Controls

• Introduction to Web Forms Controls
• Simple Input Controls
• HyperLinks and Button Controls
• List Controls

Validating User Input

• Overview of ASP.NET Validation Controls
• Using the Simple Validators
• Using the Complex Validators
• Summarizing Results with the ValidationSummary Control

Using Rich Server Controls

• Introduction to Rich Controls
• The Calendar Control
• The AdRotator Control
• The XML Control

Accessing Data with ADO.NET

• Overview of ADO.NET
• Connecting to Data
• Executing Commands
• Working with Data
• Choosing an ADO.NET Provider

Using the DataList and Repeater Controls

• Overview of List-Bound Controls
• Creating a Repeater Control
• Creating a DataList Control

Working with the DataGrid Control

• Introduction to the DataGrid
• Setting Up the DataGrid
• Using Advanced DataGrid Features
• Adding Advanced Features

Managing Data with ADO.NET DataSets

• The Role of DataSets in ADO.NET
• Using DataSets in ASP.NET
• Saving DataSets in Session State
• Using DataTable Constraints and DataSet DataRelations
• Using DataSets with DataAdapters to Modify Data
• The Transactional Model in DataSets

Creating XML Web Services

• The Motivation for XML Web Services
• Creating an XML Web Service with Visual Studio .NET
• Disabling Unwanted Protocols
• Designing XML Web Services

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ASP.NET: Building and Deploying Web Applications Using Visual C# .NET

This course takes you beyond the basics of creating Web pages and XML Web Services with ASP.NET, by presenting the techniques and concepts you will need to build efficient, full-featured Web applications. You will learn to interoperate with non-.NET code, manage session state, and reuse code by creating your own controls. This course teaches you how to improve performance with output caching, debug your applications and trace its activity, use advanced Web Services features, and configure and deploy ASP.NET applications. Finally you will learn to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, handle multi-user data access conflicts, and support mobile devices.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Create ASP.NET custom and user controls to speed development time.
• Take advantage of ASP.NET’s versatile output caching to increase performance.
• Add scalability and reliability by setting up and out-of-process session state server.
• Make asynchronous calls to XML Web Services.
• Create a Web Setup project in Visual Studio to build a deployment package that takes advantage of Windows Installer.

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 and Out-of-Process State Server
• Storing Session State in SQL Server
• Using Cookieless Session IDs
• Application State

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

Improving Performance with Caching

• The Importance of Caching
• Declarative Page Output Caching
• Programmatic Page Caching
• Caching Page Fragments
• Caching Data
• Monitoring Performance

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Your instructors, Andy Baron, Mary Chipman, and Ken Getz are all Senior Consultants with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Solution Provider. All have been Microsoft MVPs since 1995. When not creating applications for clients, Andy, Mary, and Ken write articles for technical journals such as MSDN, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, asp.netPRO, Access-VB-SQL Advisor, MsOfficePro, and SQL Server Magazine, and have written over 10 technical books on various development topics. All three authors speak regularly at industry conferences, including Microsoft's Tech-Ed and DevDays, DevConnections, VBITS, and Advisor Devcon.

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