ASP.NET

ASP.NET – Table of Contents

Part I: Web Programming Basics

• Introduction to Web Programming
  • Key Terms need to know before going for a Web Programming
  • What is a Web Server?
  • What is a Browser (Client)?
  • Browser Is a Thin Client
• How Web Applications work?
• Static and Dynamic Web Pages
• Client Side and Server Side Processing
• Web Application Basics
  • HTTP Requests
  • HTTP Request from a Browser
  • Making HTTP Request without a Browser
  • HyperText Markup Language
  • Dynamic Content
    • HTML Forms
    • Common Gateway Interface
    • The Microsoft Platform as a Web Server
  • Internet Information Services
    • Internet Services Application Programming Interface DLLs
    • Internet Information Services
• Drawbacks of ASP
  • Look Back: Active Server Pages (ASP)
• The Evolution of Web Development
  • HTML and HTML Forms
  • Server-Side Programming
  • Client-Side Programming

Part II: Server-Side Programming – ASP.NET

• Introduction
  • Introducing ASP.NET
    • What is ASP.NET?
    • How Browser understands ASP.NET web Pages?
    • How ASP.NET is converted to HTML?
  • Advantages of ASP.NET
  • Seven Important Facts about ASP.NET
  • Road to ASP.NET
    • What’s New in ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1?
    • What is New in ASP.NET 2.0
    • What’s new in .NET 3.0?
    • What’s New in ASP.NET 3.5 and Web Development
    • What’s New in ASP.NET 4 and Visual Web Developer
  • Some useful Tips for Asp.Net Web Development
• ASP.NET Fundamentals
  • NET Architecture
  • How ASP.NET Web Pages are processed on the Web Server?
  • NET Execution Model
  • The ASP.NET Compilation Model
  • How Web Servers Execute ASP.NET Files
  • Compilation
  • Behind the scenes of ASPX files
  • NET Applications
    • Application Types in ASP.NET
    • NET Web Project File Types
    • Web Application Projects versus Web Site Projects
    • Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in Visual Studio
  • Structure of ASP.NET Pages
  • NET Application Folders
    • NET Application Folders – App_Code
    • NET Application Folders – Continues…
  • The Page Model
    • In-Line Coding
    • Code-Behind
    • Code-Behind versus In-Page Coding
    • Moving to another Page
      • NET 2.0 Page Model – Part I
      • Dealing with PostBacks in ASP.NET
      • Cross-Page Postback in ASP.NET 2.0 – Page Model Part III
      • Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 – Page Model Part IV
      • Working with Client Script in ASP.NET 2.0 – Part V
    • Directives
  • NET Page-Life Cycle
  • NET Objects
    • NET Request Objects
    • NET Response Objects
    • The HttpApplication
    • The HttpResponse Object
• NET Server Controls and Client Side Scripting
  • HTML Controls
  • Standard Controls
  • Validation Controls
  • Login Controls
  • Client Side Scripting
• State Management
  • The Problem of State
  • View State
    • The View State
    • Making a View State
    • Retaining member Variables
    • Storing Custom Objects
  • Transferring Information between pages
    • Query String
    • Cross-Page Posting
  •  Cookies
    • A Cookie Example
  • Session State
    • Session Tracking
    • Using Session State
    • Session State Configuration
      • Cookie-less
      • Time-out
      • Mode
  • Application State
  • An Overview of State management Choices

• Tracing, Logging and Error Handling
  • Application-Level Tracing
  • Using Tracing to find page errors

Part III: Working with Data

• ADO.NET
  • An Introduction to ADO.NET
  • NET Architecture
  • NET Classes
  • NET DataSets
  • Connection Pooling
• Data Binding
  • The ASP.NET Data Binding Model
• Rich Data Controls
  • View Controls
  • DataSource Controls
  • Dynamic Data
  • Reporting

Part IV: Building ASP.NET Websites

• Styles, Themes and Master Pages
  • What are Themes
  • Creating Themes, how to apply themes
  • Dynamically applying themes
  • Terminology and Use of Master pages
  • Creating Master pages
  • Adding the Content pages
  • Changing the Master page’s properties from content pages
  • Changing the Master page Dynamically
• Website Navigation
  • Introduction and Site Map definition
  • SiteMapDataProvider Control
  • Site Navigation Controls
    • Menu
    • SiteMapPath
    • Treeview
    • Adding Breadcrumb Navigation
• Website Deployment

Part V: ASP.NET Configuration and Performance

• Overview of ASP.NET Configuration
• NET Configuration Files
  • config
  • config
• The Web Site Administration Tool
• NET Configuration in IIS
• Encrypting Information in the Configuration Files

Part VI: Web Site Security

• Security Fundamentals
• Forms Authentication
• Membership
• Using The Login Controls
• Profiles
• Cryptography

Part VII: Web Services

• Introduction
  • What is a web service?
  • Commonly used terms in Web Services
  • Web Service Architecture
  • NET Protocols
• Creating and Consuming a Web Service
  • Consume Web Services with Ajax
• Building a Web Service with .NET Remoting