Visual Basic .NET Web Applications - Online Course

This series explains how to develop and implement Web-based applications with Web forms, ASP.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Specific topics presented are web forms, controls, user interface navigation, data binding and manipulation, error handling, components, assemblies, web services, globalization, legacy code, as well as deploying and maintaining web applications.

This series is for anyone who wants to learn more about designing web applications using .NET. This online course contains 7 lessons and 1 practice exams and should take approximately 19 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Web Forms and Controls (3.0) hours

Web Forms and Controls teaches you how to create ASP.NET pages in Visual Studio .NET, create event handlers to respond to events, add controls to ASP.NET pages, customize control appearance and behavior using properties, and validate user input. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to create ASP.NET pages and implement HTML controls. Topics include The .NET Framework, .NET development tools, Classes, inheritance, and namespace, Active Server Pages .NET, Event handling, Separating user interfaces and business logic, Web form using Visual Studio .NET, HTML controls, Web server controls, List controls, Validating user input, and Cascading style sheets.

Lesson 2: User Interface Navigation and Error Handling (2.0) hours

User Interface Navigation and Error Handling teaches you how to manage data during postback events, manage data across pages, create custom error pages, and handle errors at both the application and page level. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to implement navigation and error handling for the user interface. Topics include Round-trip and postback, Intrinsic objects, ASP.NET applications, Client-side state management techniques, Server-side state management techniques, Navigating between pages, Understanding exceptions, Handling exceptions, and Managing unhandled exceptions.

Lesson 3: Binding, Consuming, and Manipulating Data (4.0) hours

Binding, Consuming, and Manipulating Data teaches you how to bind data to the user interface, filter and transform data, create SQL Server queries and stored procedures, retrieve data from relational databases with ADO.NET, load and edit data into a DataSet object, and handle locking and other errors during data access operations. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to bind, consume, and manipulate data. Topics include User interface data binding, Data Bind method, Manipulating databases, Using template controls, Accessing SQL Server data, Manipulating SQL Server data, Using stored procedures, Accessing and manipulating data, The ADO.NET object model, Using DataSets, Editing data, Using XML data, and Handling data errors.

Lesson 4: Components, Assemblies, and Web Services (2.0) hours

Components, Assemblies, and Web Services teaches you how to derive a component from the component class, create a web user control, create both composite and derived custom controls, create a .NET assembly, and create, discover, and instantiate a web service. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to create, as well as manage, components, assemblies, and web services. Topics include Creating and using .NET components, Web user controls, Web custom control, Creating and managing .NET assemblies, Understanding web services, Discovering web services, and Instantiating and invoking web services.

Lesson 5: Globalization and Legacy Code (2.0) hours

Globalization and Legacy Code teaches you how to localize an application, use culture information at runtime, use character encodings to present information, mirror a user interface, use an ActiveX control from ASP.NET, and instantiate a COM component from .NET code. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to globalize an application and work with legacy code. Topics include Localization and globalization, Cultures, Implementing mirroring, Using existing code, Using Active X controls, Using COM components, and Using platform invoke.

Lesson 6: Testing, Debugging, and Deploying Web Applications (2.0) hours

Testing, Debugging, and Deploying Web Applications teaches you how to implement user assistance and ensure accessibility for users with disabilities, create a test plan, configure and use the debugging environment, create setup and deployment projects for Web applications, add assemblies to the Global Assembly Cache, and deploy an application to a Web garden, Web farm, or cluster. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to provide user assistance and accessibility. It also covers how to test, debug, and deploy a web application. Topics include User assistance and accessibility, Testing, Tracing, Debugging, Deploying Web applications, Customizing setup projects, Shared assemblies, Creating installation components, and Scalable and reliable deployment.

Lesson 7: Maintaining, Supporting, and Configuring Web Applications (2.0) hours

Maintaining, Supporting, and Configuring Web Applications teaches you how to optimize the performance of a Web application, locate and resolve errors in a Web application, read, write, and monitor event log and performance data, use application configuration files, configure authentication and authorization for a Web application, and use caching and session state to hold data. This course provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to maintain, support, and configure a web application. Topics include Designing web applications, Using event logs, Using performance counters, Configuring web applications, Configuring security, Using caching and session state, and Installing and configuring server services.

1 Practice Exam

This course provides two practice exams for the Microsoft 70-305 certification exam.