ASP.NET Training: Beginning ASP.NET with C#

Course Number: NET-200
GSA/Previous Course Number: 130
Duration: 5 days
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ASP.NET Training Overview

Accelebrate's Beginning ASP.NET with C# training class teaches experienced developers the C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Visual Studio .NET skills they need to successfully build database-driven Web applications and Web services.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=categorygroup&page=microsoft.

ASP.NET Training Prerequisites

At least one year of consistent object-oriented or object-based development experience in Java, C++, Visual Basic, or another modern object-oriented or object-based language. In addition, all attendees must have a solid knowledge of HTML and should know the basics of SQL and relational databases. Knowledge of XML and developing server-side Web applications is helpful but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This ASP.NET training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

ASP.NET Training Materials

All students receive a copy of Que's Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET, which would be used as the instructional guide for the course. The proposed instructor was the technical editor for this book.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or 7
Internet Information Services 5 or later
SQL Server 2000 or MSDE
.NET Framework Distributable 1.0 SP2 or later installed, with ASP.NET functionality tested
Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
Visual Studio .NET 2003 or 2002
If running Visual Studio .NET 2002, please apply Service Pack 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c41d8159-b42f-4d06-a797-e510494976ee&displaylang=en)
A minimum of 2GB RAM

ASP.NET Training Objectives

To fully familiarize students with the architecture of the .NET Framework, as well as the use of the core classes for Web user interfaces, form processing, form validation, session and application management, database connectivity, XML processing and XSLT transformation, and Web services.
To get attendees up to speed on everything they need to successfully use Visual Studio .NET to develop, test, and deploy Web applications.

ASP.NET Training Outline

.NET Framework architecture

The role of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and core .NET Framework classes
Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL)
Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation
Assemblies, native assemblies, and the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
Comparison of VB.NET, C#, and J#

Understanding the types of programs that can be created with .NET

ASP.NET Web applications
ASP.NET Web services
Command-line programs
Windows applications
Reusable assemblies

Introduction to ASP.NET

Advantages of ASP.NET
Creating an ASP.NET Page
Understanding the ASP.NET Page Execution
The Page Class
Stages in Page Processing

Controls

HTML controls
HTML server controls
Web server controls

Common
Event handling
The List controls
The PlaceHolder and Panel Controls
The Table, TableRow, and TableCell Controls
The AdRotator Control
The Calendar Control

User input validation
Cascading style sheets

Implementing Navigation for the User Interface

Roundtrip and Postback
ASP.NET Intrinsic Objects
ASP.NET Application: A definition
State Management (client-side and server-side)
Navigation between pages

Error Handling for the User Interface

Understanding exceptions in C# (and how they differ from Java)
Review of try-catch-finally for handling exceptions
Using custom exceptions
Managing unhandled exceptions

Data Binding (Displaying and Updating Data)

Binding data to the UI

Simple data binding
Complex data binding
The DataBind method
Using the Data Form wizard

Transforming and filtering data
Using Repeater and DataList controls to displays data

Consuming and Manipulating Data (Note: This unit sounds short from the outline, but will actually span an entire day due to the depth of material covered regarding ADO.NET)

Overview of ADO.NET architecture and how it differs from JDBC
Accessing and manipulating database data (via both SQL and stored procedure calls)
Manipulating data

Working with disk files
Working with ADO.NET DataSets
Editing data with ADO.NET
Using XML data

Handling data errors

Creating and Managing Components and .NET Assemblies

Creating and using .NET components
Creating and using Web user controls
Creating Web custom controls
Creating and managing .NET assemblies

Web Services

Understanding Web services

SOAP
Disco and UDDI
WSDL
Invoking your first Web service

Creating Web services
Discovering Web services
Instantiating and invoking Web services

Testing and Debugging a Web Application

Testing

Creating a test plan
Executing unit tests
Testing international applications

Tracing

Using the TraceContext class
Using Trace and Debug
Trace listeners
Trace switches
Conditional compilation

Debugging

Setting breakpoints and conditional breakpoints
Stepping through program execution
Debugging a running process
Debugging a remote process

Deploying a Web Application

Deployment tools

XCOPY deployment
FTP deployment
Windows installer

Deploying a Web application using a Web Setup Project
Customizing Web Setup Projects
Shared Assemblies (using the Global Assembly Cache)
Creating installation components

Conclusion