ASP.NET Introduction

Duration: 2 days

This course can be delivered in a number of environments, including Dreamweaver MX or Microsoft Web Matrix. Customised and public course options are available.

ASP.NET Fundamentals
Requirements of a Web Application
Handling Page object events to produce dynamic Web pages
Compiling and executing .NET applications
Overview of the ASP.NET Object Model
Creating and Using Code-Behind Pages
Overview of the Config files: web.config, Machine.config

Enhancing the User Interface with Web Forms and Web Controls
Configuring common form element properties
Populating forms with controls
Comparing Web controls with HTML controls
Checking input with Validator controls

Processing User Input with the Request and Response Objects
Capturing user input with Web Forms
Generating page output programmatically
Form and QueryString Methods - Sending data to the Server with Form Submission
ServerVariables Collection - extracting information from the HTTP Header
Write Method - writing to the HTTP stream

State Maintenance
Strategies for maintaining state in an ASP.NET application
Session Object - A place to store user specific data

Exception Handling
Overview of handling errors in your Web Forms

Using ADO.NET to Access Data
Overview of ADO.NET
Connecting to a Data Source
Accessing Data with DataSets
Presenting data using DataReaders and Tables
Executing Commands - running the Datastore queries
Inserting, updating and deleting records with the Command object

Pre-requisites:

Some knowledge of HTML is expected and some experience with programming languages is a useful background to this course.