Building Effective ASP.NET 4.0 Web Applications using Visual Studio 2010

This course provides the necessary skills and techniques to design and write scalable, robust and secure Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the ASP.NET 4.0 Framework.

Delegates will learn how to

• Create file- and HTTP-based web projects using Visual Studio 2008
• Use validation techniques to ensure input data accuracy
• Use Master Pages and CSS to enforce design principles
• Personalise web applications using profiles, themes and skins
• Create modular user interfaces using web parts and user controls
• Implement menus, wizards and other site navigation mechanisms
• Use routing to simplify URLs within your ASP.NET 4.0 web application
• Diagnose problems and implement a coherent error handling architecture
• Create data-driven and data-bound user interfaces using XML, relational data sources, and LINQ
• Use the Chart control to display high-quality business metric and trends within your ASP.NET 4.0 Web Application
• Use ASP.NET Dynamic Data to quickly create data-driven web applications
• Understand and manage state across and within page transitions
• Implement authentication, authorisation and role based security using the ASP.NET 4.0 membership system and the login controls
• Extend the pipeline using custom modules and handlers
• Create and use simple ASP.NET Web Services and WCF services
• Describe and implement ASP.NET AJAX functionality to provide a richer UI experience

You will gain in-depth technical knowledge of ASP.NET and its related technologies and obtain practical insights into developing enterprise-scale, data-driven Web applications. Throughout the course you will be building a fully functional ASP.NET 4.0 web solution, using best practices including writing secure code to protect against potential malicious attacks.

The course is presented as a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Instructions and solutions are provided in both C# 4.0 and Visual Basic 2010, enabling you to work with your choice of language. (Before attending, delegates must already know one of these .NET languages.)