Introduction to ASP.NET
Learn
how to use Microsoft's visual Web developer to create exciting, interactive,
and polished Web sites with ASP.NET.
You'll begin this hands-on course by adding powerful controls to your Web
pages, giving visitors the ability to interact with your Web site.
You'll find out how to connect to a database, read the information stored
inside, and display it exactly the way you want.
You'll find out how style sheets make it easy to give every page of your Web
site the same clean, consistent, and professional look, and you'll learn how
to create master pages to ensure that each page you create uses a common set
of controls.
Using ASP.NET's powerful membership features, you'll develop a true
community-based Web site that allows users to register, log in, create and
update profiles, and post messages to a forum.
You'll explore the issue of Web security, and you'll discover some simple
things you can do to protect your site and prevent the most common types of
attacks.
To enroll in this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
Requirements:
Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or better and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, both available from http://www.asp.net (software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins); Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 4), Windows XP (with service Pack 2), or Windows Vista; 192 MB RAM or more, 500 MBytes Free Disk Space (full installation requires 1.3 GByte free disk space); Internet access; e-mail; and the and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Note: This course is not suitable for Macintosh users.
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end.
Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course.
You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must
complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each
month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to
space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
| In this first lesson, you'll download and install
free software that will help you start creating your own Web sites
using ASP.NET. What exactly is ASP.NET? You'll find that out here,
too. You'll also see just what makes a Web site tick and we'll work
together with a Web browser. You'll discover how the better sites
don't just send Web pages to a browser, but rather they create and
customize pages right on the spot to produce an exciting user
experience. |
| Friday - Lesson 02 |
| Today, you'll start creating Web pages that
include buttons and text boxes, which visitors can use to submit
information. You'll see how you can write ASP.NET programs that read
this information and use it to create a new Web page in response.
The sequence of events that does this is called a postback,
and it's a crucial and exciting element of developing interactive
Web sites. |
| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
| In this lesson, you'll delve further into
creating interactive Web sites, picking up a few programming tricks
that will help make your life easier. One such technique is the use
of object-oriented programming. Many people have heard of
this type of programming, and you'll discover how easy it really is
to master. You'll also add another control to your Web site, a list
box. Then you'll see how you can write code that will run on the Web
server in response to the user interacting with your Web page by
pushing buttons. |
| Friday - Lesson 04 |
| An exciting way to fancy up a Web site is to
customize its overall look. You can choose a site's colors, fonts,
borders, and general look using a technology called styles.
Today, you'll combine everything you've learned so far to make some
really attractive pages that incorporate various styles and
controls. |
| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
| While creating Web sites with ASP.NET, you're
free to make use of an entire programming language, and you're free
to pick from two exciting ones: VB.NET and C# (pronounced C Sharp).
In this course, we'll focus on VB.NET, and in this lesson, you'll
see how you can keep track of small pieces of information using
variables. Then, to try out some of the techniques we'll go
over, you'll create a really cool calendar—and see just how
incredibly easy it is to do. But then the excitement really begins
as you find out how to store large amounts of data in a database.
Professional Web sites make use of databases to store information on
millions of customers, and with your newfound knowledge of
databases, you'll be able to build Web sites that do this, too.
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
| In order to make use of a database, your Web
server needs to connect to it. Then the data can start flowing,
whether it consists of only a small amount of data or information on
millions of customers. Today, you'll see how to connect to a
database. Then you'll learn two ways to display this data on a Web
page in the browser. You'll find out how to display data in a grid
fashion using a control called a GridView, and how to display
it in more of a tabular fashion using a DetailsView control.
These controls are so easy to use that you'll have a fancy
data-processing Web site up in no time. |
| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
| In this lesson, you'll start getting into the
nuts and bolts of databases. You'll see how data is stored using
relationships, whereby a customer in the database might, for
example, be related to several orders that he or she made. You'll
see that databases are all about relationships, and as such are
called relational. As you explore relational data techniques,
you'll make use of yet another control for displaying data called
the FormView control. This control is incredibly powerful and
can display data exactly the way you want it to. |
| Friday - Lesson 08 |
| We'll continue exploring relational data today,
and you'll discover how to use a simple, special language called
SQL to read data from a database. These days, most database
systems use SQL, and we'll make sure you get the skills you need to
work with it. We'll also discuss another control called a
Repeater that lets you display several pieces of data in exactly
the format you choose. |
| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
| In this lesson, we'll step away from the world of
databases and see how you can make all the pages in your Web site
look similar using Master Pages. With the help of Master
Pages, you can provide a common set of controls to all your pages,
much like the navigation links you see across the top of many Web
sites. You'll discover how you can set these controls up once and
make them appear on all the pages of your Web site. |
| Friday - Lesson 10 |
| Today, you'll get to pull together everything
you've learned and start building your own community Web site, much
like the popular ones you often hear about. You'll build a site that
includes login and registration boxes so people can register with
your site and then log in. You'll find out what pages are necessary
and what data you need to include. You'll create a Master Page that
contains a navigation bar that will be accessible throughout your
site. And you'll set up the styles to give a common set of colors
and fonts throughout your site. |
| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
| In this lesson, you'll finish building your
community Web site. You'll put together pages that let users create
profiles. Your users will be able to type in the text for their
profiles and provide images to go with them. You'll also create a
page that lets visitors view the profiles of other users. You'll
find out how to present your users with a list of everybody in the
community. And you'll even create a forum where people can exchange
messages. It's hard to believe you could accomplish all this in just
two lessons, but with ASP.NET, it's incredibly easy! |
| Friday - Lesson 12 |
| To end this course, we'll cover the important
topic of Web security. You'll learn how to protect your Web sites
from hackers and prevent some common types of attacks. You'll also
see how to make smooth transitions between the different pages of
your sites to provide a nice user experience. Finally, we'll go
through some advanced topics you can explore on your own if you'd
like to learn even more about the world of ASP.NET programming.
You'll leave today armed with the knowledge you need to build some
really great, sophisticated, interactive Web sites. |
To enroll in this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
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