Building ASP.NET Web Forms Applications

Introduction to Web Forms

• Constructing ASP.NET pages with Web Form controls
• Developing HTML5 web pages with Visual Studio
• Examining content with Page Inspector

Designing Web Forms

• Applying common Web Form controls
• Creating consistent layouts with Master Pages
• Sharing reusable content with Web User controls

Activating Web Forms

• Handling control events
• Sending e-mail from a web page
• Validating user input

Developing data-driven applications

• Connecting to a database with data source controls
• Binding data sources to Web Form controls
• Automating data access with GridView, FormView, ListView and DetailsView
• Utilising code-first Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities for data access

Modifying data

• Inserting, updating and deleting with DbContext
• Managing updates with two-way Model Binding
• Reporting errors and checking validity with ModelState

Creating multitier applications

• Implementing business logic in the middle tier
• Encapsulating validation logic with Data Annotations
• Binding to business objects with ObjectDataSource

Managing state in web applications

• Reading and writing cookies
• Storing user state in the session object
• Leveraging caching for performance and scalability

Implementing web security

• Authenticating users from the Internet
• Limiting access to authorised users

Creating a richer UI with Ajax extensions

• Integrating Ajax with existing pages
• Increasing responsiveness with UpdatePanel
• Triggering Ajax from outside the UpdatePanel

Making custom Ajax requests with jQuery

• Writing and calling RESTful services with the ASP.NET Web API
• Leveraging jQuery and jQuery UI for DHTML
• Working with the $.get() and .ready() methods

Creating flexible Web Forms

• Repackaging existing content for mobile devices
• Reducing duplication with user controls and master pages

Harnessing jQuery Mobile

• Controlling layout with HTML5 data-* attributes
• Disabling Ajax navigation for maximum compatibility
• Displaying lists and collapsible content blocks

Improving search engine rankings

• Simplifying URLs with friendlyUrls
• Retrieving URL segments

Integrating jQuery plugins

• Adding plugins to Web Form pages
• Enhancing the UI with the .rate() plugin

Leveraging the Geolocation API

• Finding user location with getCurrentPosition()
• Calculating distances with DbGeography

• Packaging for deployment
• Transforming the web.config for production