ASP.NET & Dreamweaver Training

Course Number: DW-304
Duration: 2 days
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ASP.NET with Dreamweaver Training Overview

Accelebrate's Building Data-Driven ASP.NET Web Sites with Dreamweaver training teaches attendees the Dreamweaver^® and ASP.NET skills they need to integrate databases with their Web sites.

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=dreamweaver.

ASP.NET with Dreamweaver Training Prerequisites

Accelebrate's Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, or equivalent experience.

Alternative ASP.NET Training Classes

If you are interested in learning ASP.NET programming, we encourage you to consider our ASP.NET training classes.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Dreamweaver training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

ASP.NET with Dreamweaver Training Materials

All students in this Dreamweaver training class receive a copy of Peachpit Press's ASP.NET Development with Dreamweaver: Visual QuickPro Guide and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later
Dreamweaver 8, CS3, or later (course can also be taught using Dreamweaver MX 2004 or MX)
Microsoft Internet Information Server, running on Windows 2000 (Professional or Server), Windows XP Professional, or Windows 2003 Server
Microsoft Access or SQL Server (if SQL server, the database can be located on a single PC or server provided the student PCs have network access to it)
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK (freely downloadable from http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/)

ASP.NET with Dreamweaver Training Objective

To learn how to build data-driven Web sites using Dreamweaver, ASP.NET, and a database

ASP.NET with Dreamweaver Training Outline

Introduction

Roles of server-side languages
Choosing a server-side language
Which server-side language is best?
Overview of ASP.NET and its requirements
Goals of this class / Who is this class for?

Creating a Dreamweaver site

Site creation - basic
Site creation - advanced

Database connections

Database basics
Introduction to SQL
Server behaviors

Querying the database

Building a SQL query using the Simple view
Building a SQL query using the Advanced view
Adding fields from the resulting records to your page

Displaying and formatting query results

Using Repeat Region to display multiple records
Formatting results
Using a DataList to display results
Using a DataGrid to display results

Paging through records

Schemes for recordset navigation
Paging to first, last, previous, and next records

Show region if...

Selectively displaying information based on a conditional
Disabling the first and previous record links if the first page of results is displayed
Disabling the last and next record links if the last page of results is displayed

Displaying the count of the number of records returned

Creating master-detail views

Overview of the importance of master-detail views and how they convey information
Creating a master-detail view

Advanced recordsets and multi-table queries

Method 1 - Simple recordset with filter
Method 2 - Advanced recordset
Method 3 - Advanced recordset and multi-table Queries

Dynamically populating forms

Populating text fields, text areas, and hidden fields
Populating selection lists, radio button lists, and checkboxes

Building record insertion forms

Building the insertion form by hand
Allowing Dreamweaver to generate the record insertion form automatically
Creating a page that confirms the record insertion
Validating form entries using JavaScript behaviors

Understanding stored procedures

How they are created in the database
Advantages/disadvantages of stored procedures versus SQL
Calling a stored procedure without passing parameters
Passing input parameters to a stored procedure
Retrieving parameters from a stored procedure

Updating records

Manually constructing a form that allows the user to update a record
Using Dreamweaver to automatically generate a form for updating the record
Validating the edited information using JavaScript behaviors
Building a confirmation page to display the result of updating the record

Deleting records

Precautions to take to ensure that records are not inadvertently deleted
Building an appropriate record deletion interface, complete with confirmation dialog

Implementing user login/logout with Dreamweaver

Overview of Web application security issues
Preferred approach: configuring the Web server to manage security
Alternative approach: having Dreamweaver automatically generate code for logging users in, authenticating them, and logging them out
In-depth instruction on using Dreamweaver with ASP.NET to implement user login/logout and page-by-page authentication

Conclusion

Permission Notice

Parnell/Martinez, ASP.NET DEVLOPMT WITH DREAMWVR MX:VIS QKPRO, © 2003 Ryan Parnell and Joel Martinez. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Peachpit Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.