Moving to ASP.NET from ASP

Duration: 2 days

Objectives

Enable ASP programmers to move to an ASP.NET environment.
This course can be delivered in a number of environments, including Dreamweaver MX, Web Matrix or Visual Studio. A thorough understanding of HTML and ASP version 2 or 3 is required to get the most from this course. This is important as many topics cover familiar ASP ground, but seen from the ASP.NET methodology, which is quite different.

ASP.NET Fundamentals
Requirements of an ASP.NET Web Application
Sharing information between pages
Handling Page object events to produce dynamic Web pages
Compiling and executing .NET applications
The ASP.NET Object Model
The Config files: web.config, Machine.config

Integrating Asp with ASP.NET
Accessing legacy ASP objects from ASP.NET pages
Migrating components to ASP.NET

Separating Code from Content
Advantages of Partitioning an ASP.NET Page
Creating and Using Code-Behind Pages

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
Form and QueryString Methods - Sending data to the Server with Form Submission
ServerVariables Collection - extracting information from the HTTP Header
Cookies Collection - Reading the users cookie information on the Server Side and writing Cookie values from the Server side
Write Method - writing to the HTTP stream

State Maintenance
Strategies for maintaining state in an ASP.NET application
Caching pages to decrease the load on the Web Server
Application Object - A place to store global information that may be needed across your entire website
Session Object - A place to store user specific data

Exception Handling
Strategies for handling errors in your Web Forms

Debugging ASP.NET Applications
Tracing Code Execution
Page Level Tracing
Application Level Tracing

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

Pre-requisites

Delegates should already be programming in ASP.