Building Effective ASP.NET 4.0 Web Applications using Visual Studio 2010

Fundamentals

• Internet fundamentals review
• Application configuration
• Processing model
• Page execution
• Event lifecycle
• Object model overview

Using Visual Studio 2010

• Creating a Web Site
• Project and solution structures
• ASP.NET folder structure
• Essential features for Web development
• Understanding code separation
• Copying and Publishing a Web Site
• One-click Publish for Web Applications

Designing your web site

• Overview of layout options
• Creating common layout with Master Pages
• Server controls overview
• CSS functionality
• HTML & JScript Snippets
• JScript IntelliSense Enhancements

Validation and Error Handling

• The need for validation
• Validation on the Client and Server
• ASP.NET validation controls
• Ensuring correctness in posted data
• Exception handling in ASP.NET

Site Navigation

• Navigation scenarios
• Basic navigation
• Crosspage postbacks
• Accessing the previous page
• Creating Wizards; Templating Wizards.
• The Navigation API and Controls

User controls and Web Parts

• Introduction to Usercontrols
• Overview of Custom Controls
• Building common page parts
• Web Parts

Components and Architecture

• Web architecture considerations
• Component based development
• Data access issues
• Distributed architectural issues

Databinding and Presentation - Part 1 - The Databinding Controls

• Data source controls
• GridView, FormView, DetailsView
• ListView, DataPager
• Treeview

Databinding & Presentation - Part 2 - Charting

• Charting in Business Web Applications
• Using the Chart Control
• Advanced functionality using Ajax

Databinding & Presentation - Part 3 - Dynamic Data

• What is Dynamic Data?
• Data Model
• Fields and Validation
• DynamicDataManager
• Binding Controls and Dynamic Data

Caching

• Cache API
• Caching data
• Managing data refreshing - Cache dependencies
• Output caching and substitution
• Cache Providers
• Cache Extensibility

State Management

• Managing state within a page
• Managing state across pages
• Managing state within a single visit
• Managing long-term state across visits

Securing access to Web applications

• IIS authentication/authorization
• ASP.NET authentication/authorization
• Security objects
• Scenario based best practice
• Custom (Forms) authentication
• Using the Membership and Roles APIs
• Membership controls

Under the covers

• ASP.NET pipeline
• Writing Custom ASP.NET modules
• Writing Custom ASP.NET handlers

Routing

• Why Routing?
• Routing and Web Forms
• RouteTable and PageRouteHandler
• RouteData
• Expression Builders
• Parameters

ASP.NET Web & WCF Services

• Exposing a simple Web Service
• Consuming a simple Web Service
• Creating a WCF service
• Consuming a WCF service

Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX

• AJAX Scenarios
• Infrastructure
• ASP.NET AJAX controls
• Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX script library
• Consuming a Web Service from the client
• ASP.NET AJAX Application Services