Essential ASP.NET WebForms Training

Essential ASP.NET explains how you can build browser-centric web applications using Microsoft's ASP.NET framework. This in-depth, fast-paced course provides you with the core concepts and practical skills to develop web applications. Explore ASP.NET features such as web forms, custom controls, validation, data binding, caching, security, master pages, navigation, AJAX, and more.

You'll get answers to these questions:

• How do I architect pages in my web application?
  When should I build custom controls or user controls?
  
• What are the benefits of using declarative data binding?
  
• How can I secure my application?
  
• What's the best way to manage data for my users?
  

Come and learn to build great websites using ASP.NET!

DevelopMentor's Essential courses provide five days of instructor-led training for the experienced developer. Gain deep understanding of your development platform. Acquire skills you need to be productive today. Build a solid foundation for more advanced topics.

• Understand the ASP.NET compilation engine
• Build pages using server-side controls, custom controls, and user controls
• Validate user input using validation controls
• Display and update data using declarative data binding
• Employ security to authenticate and authorize users of your application
• Use master pages and themes to create a consistent look and feel
• Manage data for the users of your application
• Use caching to improve performance
• Add AJAX features to your pages

Day 1

Architecture

This module explores the ASP.NET engine and how it's designed to process HTTP requests. We show the extensibility model of HttpHandlers and how ASP.NET pages build upon this architecture. We explore the page compilation model, code behind and how it affects page development. We conclude with the various approaches to application deployment including precompilation.

 

Web Forms

Web Forms is the server side object model which facilitates page development. We'll examine this server side object model as well as that of the server side controls that help make up the page. We'll look at ViewState and ControlState which allow controls to maintain their state across postbacks. We'll also examine the server side event model of the page and controls.

 

 

Day 2

Configuration

In this module we will discuss how to configure your ASP.NET applications using the XML configuration file web.config. We will also look at the typesafe API for reading, writing and encrypting configuration data. Finally we illustrate how to build custom configuration sections in web.config.

 

Custom Controls I

The ASP.NET object model heavily replies upon controls in its server side object model. This module explains in detail how the server side control model can be extended with custom controls, composite controls and user controls. We'll look at the differences in the various types and discuss when each is appropriate to use.

 

Validation

ASP.NET provides a standard set of controls to aid in validation of user input. We will look at those controls and how to extend them with your own custom validation logic on both the client in JavaScript in on the server in your ASP.NET code.

 

 

Day 3

Data Binding

This module explores the declarative data binding model in ASP.NET. We'll examine the SqlDataSource and ObjectDataSource controls that serve data, as well as the GridView, DetailsView and FormView controls to display said data. We'll conclude by showing templates in these data bound controls and the two-way data binding support.

 

Security

In this lecture we will look at the authentication infrastructure in ASP.NET. Windows and Forms authentication will both be covered. For Forms authentication we examine the MembershipProvider model for storage of authentication information as well as the RoleProvider for role management.

 

 

Day 4

Master Pages and Themes

Developing a consistent look and feel across many pages is challenging. Master Pages and Themes in provide an appealing solution to the problem. We will examine how Master Pages allow for a common layout across pages. We then will explore Themes and how they provide a consistent style for your application.

 

Navigation

ASP.NET introduces a standard representation for navigation information. This lecture will examine how to access that information explicitly with the SiteMap class and implicitly using the SiteMapPath and SiteMapDataSource controls.

 

State Management

While HTTP may be a stateless protocol, ASP.NET applications are not. There are various state management mechanisms in ASP.NET which we will cover including Session, Cookies, and the User Profile feature in ASP.NET.

 

 

Day 5

Caching

Caching is an important technique for improving performance in your application. We will see ASP.NET's support for data caching including the SqlCacheDependency class. ASP.NET also supports page output caching which includes page fragment caching and post cache substitution for finer grained page caching.

 

Diagnostics and Error Handling

There are various diagnostics features in ASP.NET. We will examine the page tracing facility as well as health monitoring framework which utilizes Web events to raise notifications and Web event providers to log the notifications. We will conclude by examining the error reporting mechanism provided by ASP.NET.

 

ASP.NET AJAX

AJAX is a style of writing browser-based application to leverage JavaScript and XmlHttp callbacks to the server. This lecture provides an introduction to Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework.

 

 

 

 

Appendix: jQuery

jQuery is a popular open source JavaScript library used to enhance AJAX style web pages and improve developer productivity. We will introduce the query and document manipulation capabilities of jQuery.

 

Appendix: Personalization with WebParts

Personalization allows end-users to customize the layout of pages to their own liking. We will explore the WebParts framework in ASP.NET to see how to build applications that support personalization.

 

Appendix: Custom Controls II

This module looks at the techniques for writing custom controls that utilize javascript on the client. We look at how to emit inline javascript with the ClientScriptManager class and how to perform scripting callbacks with the ASP.NET infrastructure. Finally we'll introduce Web Resources which allow custom controls to be completely self-contained despite requiring additional external resources (such as JavaScript or image files).

 

Appendix: Designer Integration

This module covers some of the attributes applied to custom controls to influence the designer and parser in ASP.NET.

 

Appendix: HttpRuntime

The HttpRuntime is a generic HTTP processing framework that is extensible with user code. To fully understand ASP.NET it is crucial to understand how it extends the underlying HttpRuntime architecture. We will examine the extensibility with handlers and modules and where best to utilize them.

 

Appendix: Localization

Localization is the process of translating you Web application for different languages and cultures. In this lecture you will see ASP.NET supports a more integrated localization strategy than previous versions.

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