Introducing ASP.NET

• Understand the basic architecture of a Web application
• Understanding the role of HTTP
• The difference between HTML and XHTML
• Learn the key features of ASP.NET 3.5
• The ASP.NET Namespaces
• The history of ASP.NET Web development
• Contrast the use of IIS vs. the Visual Studio 2008 development Web server
• Work with different versions of IIS
• Know the differences between a Visual Studio 2008 Web Site and a Web Application project

• Know the three architectures of ASP.NET Web pages
• Work with members of the Page class
• The Page class events
• Explore the single-file and code-behind models
• The ASP.NET directives (Page, Control, and so on)
• Investigate the ASP.NET folders
• The Request and Response objects
• The IsPostback property
• Understand the basics of Web.config
• Perform debugging and tracing
• Introducing Web Site Administration Tool (WAT)
• Research the global.asax file
• Trapping application errors

• Understand the ASP.NET Web control event architecture
• Contrast HTML Server Controls with Web Controls
• Survey the categories of Web Controls
• Programming with Web control events
• Work with ASP.NET Validation Controls
• Examine the use of HTML tables and CSS Positioning for Web content

• Understand the need for custom Web controls
• Building custom Web controls
• Using the HTMLTextWriter
• Adding Style to Custom Controls
• Integrating custom Web controls with the VS IDE
• Creating composite custom controls
• Registering the controls with *.aspx, *.ascx and *.master files
• Defining properties for the VS Properties window
• Adding a custom icon for the Toolbox

• Understanding and creating user controls
• Creating composite user controls
• Manipulating user controls on the host page
• Exposing events from user controls
• Host Web pages subscribing the user control events
• Introducing Master pages
• A Master page walkthrough
• Nested Master pages
• Master page events and page access

• Basic page navigation
• Response.Redirect() and Server.Transfer()
• Work with the MultiView control
• Work with the Wizard control
• Understand the site map model of ASP.NET
• Examine the Menu navigation control
• Examine the TreeView navigation control
• Create Web application breadcrumbs

• Define the role of view state
• Read and write cookies
• The role of application state and session state
• Work with The State Services
• Work with SQL Server session management
• Study the various forms of caching (the Cache object and OutputCache)
• Work with Cache dependencies, such as a Sql Server dependency

• Understand Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Adding a CSS Style sheet
• CSS and Web controls
• Learn the style builder tools in Visual Studio
• Examine the use of themes and skins
• Dynamically assign themes
• Adding a skin to a theme
• Defining a .skin file
• Using CSS and themes together
• Adding a stylesheet to a theme

• Introducing System.Data.dll
• The ADO.NET Data Providers
• The Speedy DataReader
• Binding DataReaders to Web controls
• Performing CRUD operations in a connected model
• Working with Parameters
• Working with Sql Server Stored Procedures
• The Disconnected Model
• Working with the Data Adapter
• Working with the members of a DataSet
• Working with a DataView
• Testing the CommandBuilder
• Adding Data relationships

• Understanding ASP.NET Data Binding
• Data Binding with Array, Collection and Custom Types
• Look at some new ways to manage Connection Strings in our applications
• Declarative data binding
• Expression data binding
• Data Source Controls
• The SqlDataSource control
• The GridView control
• The Repeater control

• Understand ASP.NET and IIS process management
• IIS delegation of requests
• Understand ASP.NET handlers
• Configuring handlers
• Creating a custom handler
• Installing a custom .ashx handler
• Using as custom file extension
• Understand ASP.NET modules
• Configuring modules
• Creating a custom module
• Comparing handlers and modules to ISAPI filters and extensions
• Configuring IIS 5.1, 6, 7

• Understand the ASP.NET provider model
• Configuring providers
• Using aspnet_regsql.exe
• Explore the membership providers and SqlMembershipProvider
• Adding new users
• The MembershipUser type
• Learn the Role Manager with SqlRoleProvider
• Store and retrieve user information with the Profile object
• Personalize a Web site

• The role of Web Parts
• The Web Part Manager
• The different modes of the WebPartManager
• Working with Web Part Zones
• Add Web Parts
• Web Parts in the Toolbox
• Using an EditorZone
• using a CatalogZone
• Using AJAX with Web Parts

• Definition of Web security
• Understand Web programming best practices
• Learn ASP.NET forms-based authentication
• Discover ASP.NET authorization
• Encrypting sections of Web.config
• Know ASP.NET security configuration
• Learn IIS security
• Work with ASP.NET security controls

• Know the role of AJAX
• AJAX in today
• Understand the role of the XMLHttpRequest object
• Learn about the ASP.NET Page Script Callbacks
• Learn the ASP.NET AJAX controls
• Learn the ASP.NET AJAX controls
• Build a Web site using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

• Copy, XCopy and RoboCopy a Web Site
• Pre-compiling a Web site using aspnet_compiler.exe
• Copying a Web site in Visual Studio
• Publishing a Web site in Visual Studio
• Building an ASP.NET Web deployment (*.msi) project

• Understand the role of Silverlight
• Contrast the Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0 feature sets
• Survey the Silverlight 2.0 architecture
• Overview key Silverlight 2.0 development tools
• Learn the core Silverlight assemblies and namespaces
• Learn the role of the Application and UserControl classes
• Learn the syntax of XAML