Getting Started with ASP.NET

• Constructing Web Forms with ASP.NET controls
• Developing with Visual Studio
• Debugging with Visual Studio Development Web server
• Applying the common Web Form controls

Architecting the User Interface (UI)

Designing with Master pages

• Ensuring uniform page layout
• Devising site templates
• Extending Master pages with custom properties

Data-driven site navigation

• Implementing ASP.NET Menu, TreeView and SiteMapPath controls
• Defining your site structure using SiteMaps
• Dynamically moving between pages in code

Standardising the UI

• Styling controls with Skins
• Building Themes from Skins and CSS

Retrieving and Updating Data

Exploiting the design-time environment

• Connecting to data with ASP.NET DataSource controls
• Binding data to Web Form controls
• Automating data access with GridView, ListView and DetailView
• Sorting and paging with GridView, ListView and DataPager

Modifying data

• Databind to middle-tier business objects
• Code-free declarative data binding
• Updating, deleting and inserting records with two-way data binding
• Integrating custom update code

Reporting

• Delivering reports with Crystal Reports
• Generating selection criteria for filtering data
• Reporting from dynamically cached data

Enhancing Web Pages

Building master-detail pages

• Parameterising the data source
• Customising DataViews with templates
• Coordinating master-detail views

Creating reusable UI components

• Building user controls
• Incorporating data retrieval into user controls

Securing the Application

Controlling site access

• Configuring Web Forms authentication and authorisation
• Administering users and roles
• Establishing user profiles

Leveraging the Login controls

• Authenticating users with the Login control
• LoginView
• LoginStatus
• LoginName

Customising security

• Integrating with Active Directory
• Configuring the security provider to take control of authentication
• Accessing user and role information from code

Maintaining State

Managing user information

• Inserting data into the ViewState
• Employing user variables with Sessions

Caching application information

• Programmatically caching business objects
• Dealing with stale data

Improving Application Functionality

Validating data

• Validator controls: Required, Range, Comparison, Summary, RegularExpression
• Implementing business rules with the Custom Validator
• Setting cursor focus on error

Simplifying complex processes

• Sequencing tasks with the Wizard control
• Partitioning data with MultiView

Handling common tasks

• Sending e-mail
• Uploading files
• Accepting dates through the Calendar control

Deploying Your Application

• The ASP.NET compilation model
• Publishing your Web site