ASP Training: Beginning Active Server Pages with JScript

Course Number: ASP-175
Duration: 3 days
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ASP Training Overview

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's popular platform for developing server-side Web applications. These applications can enable you to integrate databases and other resources with your Web site.

Accelebrate's Beginning Active Server Pages (ASP) with JScript training class gives attendees the hands-on experience they need to successfully build data-driven ASP applications using the JScript (JavaScript) programming language.

This class can be tailored to first-time, intermediate, or experienced programmers.

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=category&page=asp.

ASP Training Prerequisites

All students should be familiar with HTML fundamentals, including text layout, image placement, form creation, and table design. If students won't have these skills prior to class, we'd be glad to include training in these areas as part of this class.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 10 minutes.

ASP Training Materials

All students will receive:

A top-notch textbook, such as Wrox Press's Professional Active Server Pages 3.0, as chosen by the client in consultation with Accelebrate^®
Printed copies of all material covered in the class

Software Needed on Each PC

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server, or Windows 7
Internet Information Services 5.0 or later
Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Visual InterDev, or another text editor of the students' choice
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE), or SQL Server 2000 (any version)

ASP Training Objectives

To teach students the VBScript programming skills they need to successfully write Active Server Pages
To teach students the ASP development skills they need to develop data-driven, ASP-powered Web sites

ASP Training Outline (happily customized upon request)

Overview of JScript and ASP architecture

The role ASP plays in Web applications
Usage of VBScript or JScript programming code within ASPs
Overview of the expression, scriptlet, and declaration tags

JScript fundamentals (extremely hands-on -- a great way to get comfortable with VBScript programming)

Where JScript goes in your ASPs
Writing JScript statements
Creating, assigning to, and using scalar variables
Creating, assigning to, and using array variables
Conditionals and loops
Subroutines and functions

Processing forms with ASP

Refresher on form design
Form submission methods (GET vs. POST)
Using the Request.QueryString and Request.Form collections to access and display form data

Basic validations with ASP

Validations: should they be done client-side or server-side?
Required field validation
Data type validation
Compare validation
Range validation
Simple string validation

Working with ASP components

What is an ASP component?
Built-in components versus acquiring them from third parties
Using a component to generate and send an email message
Using a component to process a file upload
Using a component to automatically generate thumbnails from uploaded GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs

ASP state management strategies

State management: how do you store information about users as they go page to page on your site?
Hidden fields
URL rewriting
Session variables
Application variables
Cookies: Covered upon request (since some of our clients frown on their use)

Database access with ADO (Active Data Objects)

Discussion of two-tier versus three-tier ASP architecture for data access
The core ADO objects and their roles
How ADO interfaces with ODBC and OLE DB to connect to databases
SQL (Structured Query Language) primer (if necessary) for the audience
Selecting records from the database and displaying them
Inserting, updating, and deleting records in the database
Calling database stored procedures (which facilitate faster data access and manipulation)

Passing input parameters
Handling output parameters

The future of ASP and how it compares with ASP.NET

Conclusion

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