Developing Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET

Introduction
This five-day, instructor-led course will teach Microsoft Visual Basic programmers and beginning Web developers the fundamentals of Web site implementation by using Microsoft ASP.NET and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. This course focuses on using the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environment and the Microsoft .NET platform to build a complete Web application.

Audience
This course is intended for beginning Web developers who have knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or dynamic HTML (DHTML), along with some knowledge of a scripting language, such as Visual Basic Scripting Edition or Microsoft JScript. This course is also appropriate for Visual Basic 6.0 developers wanting to learn ASP.NET.

At Course Completion
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Create a component in Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#.
• Create an ASP.NET Web Application Project by using Visual Studio .NET.
• Add server controls to an ASP.NET page.
• Add functionality to an ASP.NET page.
• Use the debugging features of Visual Studio .NET.
• Use validation controls to validate user input.
• Create a user control.
• Access data by using the built-in data access tools in Visual Studio .NET.
• Describe .NET technologies and how ASP.NET integrates with them.
• Use Microsoft ADO.NET to access data in a Web application.
• Accomplish complex data access tasks from a Web application.
• Access Extensible Markup Language (XML) data and read it into a DataSet.
• Build a XML Web service.
• Call a XML Web service from a Web application and incorporate the returned data into a Web site.
• Store application and session data in variables or in a Microsoft SQL Server database.
• Configure and deploy an ASP.NET application.
• Secure a Web application by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Internet Information Services (IIS) authentication, login pages, and integration with the Passport Web Service.

Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have the ability to create HTML or DHTML, including:
• Tables
• Images
• Forms

Programming experience using Visual Basic .NET, including:
• Declaring variables
• Using loops
• Using conditional statements

Students can satisfy the prerequisites for this course by completing Course 1912—Introduction to Web Development Technologies.

In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:
Course 2559—Introduction to Visual Basic .NET programming
Course 2373—Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

Course Outline
Overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework
Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Using Microsoft .NET-Based Languages
Creating a Microsoft ASP.NET Web Form
Adding Code to a Microsoft ASP.NET Web Form
Tracing in Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications
Validating User Input
Creating User Controls
Accessing Relational Data Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Accessing Data with Microsoft ADO.NET
Calling Stored Procedures with Microsoft ADO.NET
Reading and Writing XML Data
Consuming and Creating XML Web Services
Managing State
Configuring, Optimizing, and Deploying a Microsoft ASP.NET Web Application
Helping to Protect a Microsoft ASP.NET Web Application
Review