ASP.NET Using Visual basic 2005 Part 2 Course

This course follows on from the ASP.NET Using Visual basic 2005 Part 1 course.

Completion of the ASP.NET Using Visual basic 2005 Part 1 course or equivalent knowledge.

Topics covered on the 5 day ASP.NET Using Visual basic 2005 Part 2 course

Managing State

• Preserving State in Web Applications
• Methods of Preserving State
• Page-Level State
• Enabling Dynamic Page Modifications
• View State and Page Lifecycle
• Enabling Change Events
• Understanding View State
• When to Disable View State
• The Limitations of Page-Level State
• Using Cookies to Preserve State
• Working with Cookies in ASP.NET Code
• The Limitations of Using Cookies
• ASP.NET Session State
• Problems in Classic ASP
• Storing Objects in Session State
• Storing ADO.NET Objects in Session
• Session State Object Storage
• Configuring Session State
• Editing Configuration Files
• Session State Options
• Setting Up an Out-of-Process State Server
• Ensuring that Your Data is Serializable
• Testing StateServer Session State
• Storing Session State in SQL Server
• Configuring SQL Server Session State
• Testing SQL Server Session State
• Using Cookieless Session IDs
• Application State

Managing Users with ASP.NET's Membership Features

• Introduction to Membership and Roles
• Introducing Membership Management in ASP.NET 2.0
• Introducing Role Management in ASP.NET 2.0
• The Security Services Stack
• Data Has to Go Somewhere
• Configuring Members and Roles
• Modifying Provider Behavior
• Working with Roles
• Authentication and Cookies
• Using Membership Controls
• LoginStatus Control
• Login Control
• LoginView Control
• LoginName Control
• ChangePassword Control
• PasswordRecovery Control
• CreateUserWizard Control
• Writing Code to Interact with Membership and Roles
• The Membership and MembershipUsers Classes
• The Roles Class
• Creating Custom Providers
• Setting up the XML Provider

Debugging

• Using the Visual Debugger
• New Debugging Features
• Configuring Debugging
• Setting Breakpoints
• Stepping Through Code
• Debugging Exceptions and Handling Errors
• The Exception Assistant
• Redirecting Users
• Debugging Client-Side Script
• Configuring Script Debugging
• Debugging Script in Resource Files
• Debugging Stored Procedures
• Creating a Database Project
• Working with Data Connections
• Debugging Stored Procedures

Tracing

• ASP.NET Trace
• Page-Level Tracing
• Application-Level Tracing
• Instrumenting with Trace Listeners
• The WebPageTraceListener
• Health Monitoring with Web Events
• Working with the TraceFinished Event
• Sending Web Event Data to SQL Server
• Using SqlWebEventProvider
• Providers, Rules, and Event Mappings
• Viewing Event Data

Creating New Controls

• Two Kinds of User-Defined Controls
• Creating a User Control
• A More Complex User Control
• Investigating the User Control
• Providing States Data
• User Control Properties
• User Control Events
• Testing the User Control
• Why Not Stop Here?
• Creating a Custom Control
• Investigating the StateDropDownList Control
• Rendering the Control
• Control Properties
• Managing Property Behavior Using Attributes
• Working with Postback Data
• Specifying a Toolbox Icon
• Finishing Touches
• What’s Next?

Improving Performance with Output Caching

• The Importance of Caching
• Improvements over Classic ASP
• Types of Caching in ASP.NET
• Declarative Page Output Caching
• Caching Static Pages
• Code Behind the Caching Example Pages
• Caching Multiple Versions of a Page
• Caching Page Fragments
• Using VaryByControl
• Caching Multiple Version of a Control on a Page
• Post-Cache Substitution
• Calling a Method to Insert HTML
• Using a Substitution Control
• Caching Configuration
• Output Cache Profiles
• Global Configuration Settings

Advanced Caching Techniques

• ASP.NET Caching Review
• Declarative Output Caching
• New Caching Features in 2.0
• Testing Caching in Visual Studio 2005
• Programmatic Page Caching
• The Caching Object Model
• Caching Static Pages Programmatically
• Caching Data
• Using Cache.Add and Cache.Insert
• Controlling Expiration
• Caching Data with Dependencies
• Expiring a Cached Item when Data Changes
• Polling for Changes to a Table
• Polling for Changes to Query Results
• Using SQL Server 2005 Query Notifications for Caching

Using the DataList and Repeater Controls

• Overview of List-Bound Controls
• Creating a Repeater Control
• Binding the Repeater Control to Data
• The CategoryDetail Page
• Creating a DataList Control
• Formatting the DataList
• Binding Data to the DataList
• Displaying Bound Data
• Selecting a Row
• Refreshing the Display
• Editing Data with the DataList

Creating and Consuming Web Services

• The Motivation for XML Web Services
• Web Service Requirements and Technologies
• Creating an XML Web Service with Visual Studio
• Adding Web Methods
• Testing the Web Service
• Designing XML Web Services
• Providing Services
• Marshalling Data
• Creating Web Service Consumers
• Understanding the Additions to the Project
• Calling a Web Service
• Discovering Web Services Using UDDI
• What is UDDI?