ASP.NET for Absolute Beginners

(C# 10 Hours 20 Minutes, VB 10 Hours 35 Minutes)

This series is a fast paced but gentle introduction to ASP.NET (featuring the freely available Visual Web Developer Express Edition, but can be used with any version and edition of Visual Studio) with a focus on teaching you just enough to get started building real Windows applications. All videos were created in both C# and Visual Basic languages. Videos include:

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• Getting Started with Visual Web Developer Express Edition
• Creating a Web Forms User Interface
• Understanding More About Events and Postback
• Understanding Web Application State
• Debugging and Tracing your Website
• Working with Stylesheets and Master Pages
• Databinding to User Interface Controls
• Working with the GridView and FormView
• Securing your Web site with Membership and Login Controls
• Configuring, Building and Deploying a Web site

The final four videos in this series focus on building an entire application -- a website for offering quizzes to its members. By watching as we create and entire ASP.NET website, you can see all the parts you just learned come together. It helps you understand the thought process and the workflow of creating ASP.NET applications.

• ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Designing and Planning
• ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Early Development
• ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Refining application Functionality
• ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Enabling Themes, Handling Exceptions and Deploying

BONUS MATERIAL: Exercises - A 15 page eBook (a VB edition and a C# edition) with exercises

ASP.NET 2.0 Architecture Series

(1 Hour 35 Minutes)

This series will expand your behind-the-scenes knowledge of ASP.NET and help you understand what is going on under-the-hood when a page is requested from an ASP.NET website. Extremely important that you understand these concepts!!!

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• Architecture Series Introduction
• ASP.NET 2.0 Request Pipeline Processing
• ASP.NET 2.0 Page Compilation, Control Tree and Rendering
• ASP.NET 2.0 Page Lifecycle
• ASP.NET 2.0 Application Lifecycle
• ASP.NET 2.0 Compilation Model

ASP.NET Web Form Controls

(3 Hours)

This series features a demonstration of each of the most popular ASP.NET controls. Some of the information covered will overlap with the Absolute Beginner series, but in many cases goes into much more depth.

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• Common Appearance Properties
• Common Behavior Properties
• Common Data Properties
• Common Layout and Misc Properties
• DropDownList Control
• Repeater Control
• DataList Control
• Selecting and Editing Items in a DataList
• Required Field Validator Control
• Compare Validator Control
• Range Validator Control
• Regular Expression Validator Control
• Custom Validator Control
• Validation Summary Control
• ASP.NET Calendar Control
• Using the PlaceHolder and LoadControl Together
• Intro to the ASP.NET TreeView Control
• Checkbox List Control
• Populating a Drop Down Listbox
• RadioButtonList Control
• TextBox and HTMLEncode

ASP.NET 2.0 Controls Series

(1 Hour 35 Minutes)

Continuing the theme of the previous series, this series demonstrates new controls added in 2005 to ASP.NET 2.0 (first available in Visual Studio 2005).

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• Using Linkbutton, ImageButton and Button within Templated Controls
• Using the Calendar Control
• When to use the Label Control versus the Literal Control
• Working with Single and Multiple Selection Lists
• Using the AdRotator Control
• Using the FileUpload Control
• Controlling Content Display with the Multiview and View Controls
• Using the XML Control for Server-Side Transformations
• Using the Image and ImageMap Controls
• Collecting Data Step-By-Step with the Wizard Control

ASP.NET 2.0 Data Access and Data-Binding

(8 Hours)

Retrieving data from a database or other data source and displaying it in a web page is a vital function in ASP.NET and this series will explore the special methods that make this easy to do in ASP.NET.

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• ADO.NET 2.0 Introductory Video
• Configuring a Local Microsoft SQL Server Connection String
• Configuring a Microsoft Access Connection String
• Configuring a Remote Microsoft SQL Server Connection String
• Returning Tabular Data Using an SqlDataSource Control
• Returning Tabular Data Using an AccessDataSource Control
• Using the SiteMapDataSource to Generate Navigation
• Binding XML Data to DataBound Controls Using the XmlDataSource
• Returning Tabular Data Using an ObjectDataSource
• Filtering and Binding Tabular Data Using the ObjectDataSource
• Performing CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) Operations Using the ObjectDataSource
• Performing CRUD Operations on Disconnected DataTables and Updating the Source
• Using an ADO.NET 2.0 SqlDataAdapter to Fill DataSets
• Loading XML Data Into DataSets and DataTables
• Using the SqlCommand Object to Retrieve Data (Part 1 of 2)
• Using the SqlCommand Object to Retrieve Data (Part 2 of 2)
• Using DataRelations in Untyped DataSets
• Using DataRelations in Typed DataSets
• Understanding and Using Transactions in ADO.NET 2.0
• Using Asynchronous SqlCommands
• Inserting binary data into a SQL Server Database
• Retrieving binary data from a SQL Server Database

ASP.NET AJAX 101

(5 Hours 45 Minutes)

AJAX is a technology that makes web pages behave more like Windows applications by allowing a more rich communication between the client and server. Couple this with full DOM manipulation and the ASP.NET AJAX series will help you begin to achieve mastery of that latest features of ASP.NET.

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• An Introduction to AJAX
• Installing and Using the Web Development Helper Utility
• Understanding the AJAX Traffic Footprint
• Understanding Asynchronous Ajax Calls
• Creating and Consuming PageMethods
• An Alternative Approach to Consuming PageMethods
• Creating and Consuming AJAX Enabled WFC Web Services
• Providing User Feedback
• Error Handling Using the ASP.NET AJAX Framework
• Handling Timeouts
• Understanding the Script Manager & How To Add Script References
• Understanding the ScriptManagerProxy Control
• Enabling Script Localization
• Enabling Script Globalization
• Introducing the UpdatePanel Control
• Using UpdatePanel Triggers
• Programmatic Regions
• Programmatic Updates
• Aborting UpdatePanel Requests
• Registering DataItems
• Error Handling with the ScriptManager
• Handling Errors with Client Script
• Using the UpdateProgress Control
• Using the Timer Control
• Using the Authentication Service
• Using the Profile Service
• Using the Roles Service
• Creating a Custom AJAX Extender - Part 1
• Creating a Custom AJAX Extender - Part 2
• Exploring the Use of Client Side Classes
• Creating a Custom AJAX Control
• Extending an AJAX Control

Hands On ASP.NET MVC

3 Hours, 45 Minutes

MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a design pattern made famous recently by Ruby on Rails. Microsoft released their own framework in 2009 to allow those who want to enjoy the benefit of this paradigm to take advantage of it with helper classes and more. This series demonstrates how to create a Twitter clone using the new ASP.NET MVC Framework available in ASP.NET 3.5 SP 1 and in Visual Studio 2010.

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ASP.NET Server Controls

1 Hour 30 Minutes

Creating custom server controls requires an even deeper understanding of ASP.NET internals. This series is designed to give you the foundation to move towards creating your own custom ASP.NET Web Forms.

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New ASP.NET 4.0 Features

(30 Minutes ... and growing)

Soon, Visual Studio 2010 will be available. In preparation for this, we've created the First Impressions series to demonstrate the new features of ASP.NET 4.0, VB 2010, C# 4.0 and more.

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What Next?

After you get a solid grasp of ASP.NET itself, it's time to jump in and learn more about the .NET Framework and your chosen programming languages:

• Learn LINQ and LINQ to SQL
• Command Generics, Anonymous Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lamda Expressions
• Become more efficient with Visual Studio
• Build Windows applications using Windows Forms or WPF
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