AJAX
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is one of the most popular current programming techniques used in web application development. Use this series to learn how to build interactive, exciting, fast apps for your web site programming.
This series is for anyone who would like to build applications using AJAX and the .NET 2.0 platform. This online course contains 20 lessons and should take approximately 20 hours to complete.
History and Revival of AJAX
This course provides a foundation of AJAX fundamentals, including a background and history of browsers and their development and teaches you how to describe beginnings of browser development, and describe beginnings of key benefits and features of AJAX.
Introducing JavaScript
This course illustrates the basic syntax for writing JavaScript functions, as well as how to create and use JavaScript objects and teaches you how to explain the historical basis of JavaScript, describe how to declare and use JavaScript variables, and describe how to declare and use JavaScript functions.
The XMLHttpRequest Object
This course describes the basic procedures for using the XmlHttpRequest object to make dynamic AJAX calls without having to send the entire Web page back to the server and teaches you how to describe the functionality and basic usage of the XmlHttpRequest object.
N-Tier and AJAX
This course describes the architecture and design of N-Tier applications and teaches you how to describe the structure of N-tier applications, and explain how AJAX can be used in N-tiered applications.
Rich Internet Applications
This course describes the functionality and benefits of rich Internet applications and explains how AJAX improves the utility and performance of these types of applications and teaches you how to describe the structure and architecture of rich Internet applications, and explain how AJAX can be beneficially used in creating rich Internet applications.
CSS and the DOM
This course teaches how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the appearance, behavior, and position of objects on a Web page, and how to use the Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate those Web page elements in memory and teaches you how to work with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the Document Object Model (DOM) to control the appearance, behavior and positioning of objects on a Web page.
AJAX Frameworks
This course identifies popular AJAX frameworks, compares and contrasts their capabilities, and describes key benefits and features and teaches you how to describe capabilities of popular AJAX frameworks.
Understanding an AJAX Library
This course describes the contents of an AJAX library and explains how to use the library in developing an AJAX-based application and teaches you how to describe the contents of an AJAX library, and explain the utility of an AJAX library in developing an AJAX application.
AJAX and Web Services
This course describes how to create a Web service and consume it from an AJAX-based application and teaches you how to identify how to integrate AJAX with Web services, and create a Web service and consume it from within an AJAX-based application.
Tagging with AJAX
This course teaches how to create AJAX applications that use tagging to perform user-defined content classification and teaches you how to describe how to perform user-defined content classification, and identify how to implement user-defined content classification using AJAX.
Cloning Google Suggest
This course teaches how to use AJAX technology to perform autocompletion by 'cloning', or imitating, a popular autocompletion application, Google Suggest and teaches you how to describe how autocompletion technology works, and implement limited autocompletion functionality using AJAX.
User Controls and AJAX.NET
This course teaches how to create and customize reusable drag-and-drop controls and teaches you how to design reusable "drag-and-drop" controls that utilize AJAX technologies, and customize reusable controls.
AJAX and Mapping
This course shows how to use AJAX to create mapping-enabled utility sites and teaches you how to examine how to create mapping-enabled sites ("mash-ups"), and describe how to implement AJAX technology in mash-up sites.
AJAX and Web Parts
This course teaches how to use AJAX to create Web Parts and integrate those Web Parts into user-definable portal Web sites and teaches you how to define "portal" Web sites, explain how Web Parts are used to create portal Web sites, and explain how AJAX is used in the creation of Web Parts.
AJAX and ASP.NET Security
This course provides tools to efficiently test and implement security in AJAX applications and teaches you how to describe the importance of security in AJAX applications, and identify and describe key ASP.NET tools that implement security in ASP.NET applications.
Performance
This course provides tools and techniques to improve the performance of AJAX applications and teaches you how to identify performance benefits of AJAX, and design your application to take advantage of AJAX performance benefits.
Debugging Your Application
This course covers debuging AJAX applications and teaches you how to describe how to debug AJAX applications, and identify and implement key debugging techniques.
AJAX and Site Testing
This course describes how to perform stress testing of an AJAX-enabled Web site and compare the behavior of an AJAX-enabled Web site with that of a non-AJAX-enabled Web site and teaches you how to define how an application should behave under stress, explain how to stress test a Web application, and describe what tools are available to stress test an application.
AJAX Usability
This course provides tips and techniques used to analyze and improve the usability of AJAX-enabled applications and teaches you how to describe best practices for usability of AJAX applications, and explain implications of failure to implement usability best practices in AJAX applications.
Atlas
This course describes how Microsoft has combined AJAX and ASPNET into a technology called ATLAS and discusses how to develop applications using ATLAS and teaches you how to explain the integration of AJAX and ASP.NET into ATLAS, describe the benefits and key features of ATLAS, and explain how to create applications using ATLAS.