Serious ASP .Net

This class was designed and is taught by Mark Dunn, a well recognized industry speaker and trainer.  Students attending this course will get a copy of Programming ASP .Net by Dino Esposito as course reference material.  Mark has developed labs and slides to support the material covered in the book.  Students will work on a project-based lab throughout the week ultimately completing the full project by the end of the day on Friday.  This course can be taught using either VB .Net or C#.

Monday – The Fundamentals

• Microsoft's .NET History
• Namespaces
• Assemblies
• Language Independence
• Common Language Runtime
• JIT (Just In Time) Compilers
• Disassemblers, Obfuscators, and Security
• The Lifecycle of an ASP.NET Web Application
• Server Side compared to Client Side Code Execution
• Caching
• Converting Existing ASP Applications
• The classic ASP application pattern
• Migration strategies
• Real world tips and tricks
• Mixing ASP.NET and Classic ASP
• The great in-line vs. code-behind debate
• Design for high bandwidth clients
• Design for low bandwidth clients
• Enter the Web Matrix

Tuesday – OO Design and Introduction to ADO .Net

• Object-Oriented Features
• Server Controls vs. HTML Controls
• ADO.NET
• Making Connections
• Using Datareaders
• Using Datasets
• XML Features
• Concurrency Management
• Writing Stored Procedures for ASP.NET
• User Controls
• Writing Custom Web Controls
• Using Inheritance with Server Controls
• Best Practices

Wednesday – Advanced ADO .Net with Controls

• Databinding in ASP.NET
• Using the DataGrid control
• Using the DataList control
• Using the DataRepeater control
• When Do You Use What??
• Binding with the Data Controls
• Editing
• Sorting
• Paging
• Custom Paging
• Embedding Other Controls
• Working with events: ItemCreated, ItemDataBound, PreRender
• Extending the Data Controls
• Custom Datagrid Columns
• When NOT to use the DataGrid
• Working with ViewState
• Dynamically Creating Columns
• Best Practices

Thursday – State Management and Reporting

• State Management
• Client-Side
• __VIEWSTATE
• Cookies
• Server Side
• Session Object
• Application Object
• Cache Object
• Disk Files (Flat and XML)
• Using Web Services
• Reporting with Crystal

Friday – Security and Stress Testing

• IIS Security (Anonymous, Basic, Integrated)
• Forms-based Security
• Windows Security
• Stress Testing
• Best Practices

Lab Work

The course project will involve developing a business application based on the Northwind database from soup to nuts using an n-tier architecture, data access, caching, state management, advanced data controls, databinding, and reporting.