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Advanced Asp.Net Techniques

Objectives

This course is for experienced asp.net developers who want to drill deep in to creating advanced Asp.Net applications.

We aim to improve your productivity and quality of code, and to bring you up to speed on technologies and choices you may not have had time to explore yourself.

What you will learn

This course begins with a look at architectural choices when building Asp.Net applications, including choices for layers and tiers, creating Data Access Layers, using services and more.

We then move on to Security both in terms of authentication and authorisation, but also for creating secure code that is resilient against attacks.

OO is central of course to any development in .net, and we take you futher by exploring unit testing, TDD, and design patterns, and then put it into practise creating commercial quality server controls.

Ajax is required for an modern application now and we look at how to take advantage of the Ajax Extensions, both on the client and using the server controls.

We keep this course updated constantly with the latest from the Asp.Net team - so we are currently including a look at some great new features in Asp.Net 3.5 - Data Services, MVC, Dynamic Data and more.

Finally we also look at how you can integrate Silverlight into you application to deliver truly great UX!

You should be an experienced Asp.Net developer, but you don't need no know anything about Ajax.

What you should already know

This course is for experienced Asp.Net developers using either c# or vb.net.

Course Outline

This course lasts 5 days

ASP.net Architecture Review

Designing Layered Applications
What layers and tiers do you need or want
Choices for passing data through layers
Methodologies

Services

Web Services Design
Using Asmx Web Services
- Configuring Protocols
- Binary Data
- Controlling XML Serialization
- Service Interfaces
- Soap Headers
- Consuming Web Services
- Asynchronous Calls
- Session State
Using WCF
- Overview of WCF
- Creating WCF Contracts and Services
- Consuiming WCF
- WCF Configuration and security overview

Linq

Language features introduced by Linq

• Anonymous Types

• Object Initializers

• Implicitly Typed Local Variables

• Extension methods

• Expressions:

– Lambda Expressions

– Query Expressions

Linq to Objects
Linq to Xml

LINQ to SQL
LINQ to Entities
Incorporating validation logic
Incorporating business logic

Asp.Net Membership system

Authentication and Authorization in Asp.Net
Authentication Modes
Membership and Personalization API
Membership Server Controls
Configuring the Membership Database
Creating membership providers
Creating role providers

Securing Web Applications

Encryption of credentials and config files
Writing Secure Code
Signing Assemblies

Understanding TDD

Creating Unit Tests
Test Driven Development
Mocking and IOC
Testing Web Pages

Asp.Net Ajax Overview

Introduction to Ajax
Asp.Net Ajax Overview

Using Ajax Extensions

Calling Web Services from the Client
Updating the UI
Dealing with Exceptions
Application Services
- Membership

Asp.Net Ajax Update Panel

UpdatePanel Overview
Why Use UpdatePanel Controls
How UpdatePanel Controls Work
Enabling Partial-Page Updates
Asynchronous Postbacks
What are Triggers?
Understanding UpdatePanel Refreshes
Controlling Browser History

Asp.Net Ajax Control Toolkit

Overview
Exploring Control Extenders
Using the AutoComplete Extender
Using other extenders

Understanding Asp.Net MVC Framework
Creating MVC Applications
Unit testing MVC Apps

Understanding Dynamic Data
Configuration
Customising templates

Silverlight Overview
Silverlight vs. Ajax applications
Understanding Xaml in Silverlight
Silverlight versions
Silverlight tools
Creating and hosting Silverlight applications

Advanced Ajax for Asp.Net

Objectives

This course is for experienced asp.net developers who want to drill deep in to the use of Ajax within their asp.net applications.

A common misconception is that using the UpdatePanel is all you need to know to do Ajax in Asp.net applications. Although this is a fantastic control it is not always the most efficient, and we cover all options from using raw Ajax, the asp.net Ajax client libraries and the Server Controls and Extensions.

In addition you will learn how to create your own Asp.Net Ajax controls.

What you need to know

You should be an experienced Asp.Net developer, but you don't need no know anything about Ajax.

What you will learn

There is so much cool stuff in this course that you can come away with the skills to revolutionise your User Interfaces for your Asp.Net apps! From avoiding unesseccary postbacks, to taking control on the Browser navigation buttons, to creating subtle and effective animations, or having drag and drop in the client - it's all here.

Course Outline

This course lasts 2 days

Asp.Net Ajax Overview

Introduction to Ajax
Asp.Net Ajax Overview

Using Ajax Extensions

Calling Web Services from the Client
Updating the UI
Dealing with Exceptions
Application Services
- Membership

Asp.Net Ajax Update Panel

UpdatePanel Overview
Why Use UpdatePanel Controls
How UpdatePanel Controls Work
Enabling Partial-Page Updates
Asynchronous Postbacks
What are Triggers?
Understanding UpdatePanel Refreshes
Controlling Browser History

Asp.Net Ajax Control Toolkit

Overview
Exploring Control Extenders
Using the AutoComplete Extender
Using other extenders

Essential Client Types
- Sys.Component
- Sys.UI.Behavior
- Sys.UI.Control
Components
Properties and Events
Property Change Notification
Creating a Server Control Extender
Embedded Resources

Silverlight 2 for Developers

What is Silverlight?

Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-platform, cross-browser implementation of .Net that brings a subset of the power of WPF to the web.

Much more than just a "Flash Killer" it has tremendous capability to build truly compelling UX and to increase user productivity for web based applications.

bbits have worked with Silverlight since the early release at Mix07 and our director, Ian Blackburn, is authoring a book on Silverlight 2 for Packt Publishing; he is also involved in the Microsoft Technology Access Programme (TAP) for Silverlight 2 giving him advanced access to the new features.

Objectives

This course is aimed at .Net developers who want to get you up to speed on both Silverlight 1.0 and the current beta release of Silverlight 2 (although Silverlight 2 is still in Beta you can get a free go-live license if you want to use it in production).

It will show you where Silverlight is appropriate for your applications, how the designer/developer workflow happens, how to get the most out of the technology and tools, and how to build brilliant Silverlight UX

What you will learn

You will learn how to create great UX in both Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2. You will understand the tools to use, Xaml and how the developer/designer workflow happens. You will be able to create amazing Silverlight UI that is the presentation layer for enterprise applications, with surfaced data from REST based web services.

What you should already know

You should already be a .net developer, but no Silverlight experience is required.

Course Outline

This course lasts 3 days

What is Silverlight
Architecture
Running Silverlight Apps
Creating Silverlight Apps
Tools
1.0 vs 2
Related Technologies and tools
- Xaml and WPF
- Asp.Net

Xaml Syntax
Xaml Namescopes
Silverlight namespace extensions
Markup extensions
- Binding
- StaticResource
- TemplateBinding
XamlReader

Graphics
- Shapes and Drawings
- Brushes
- Imaging
- Video Brush
- Geometries
- Paths
- Transforms
Audio and Video
- Overview
- Formats
- MediaElement
- Media Encoder
Animation
- Overview
- Key-Frame Animations
- Animations in code

Architecture
JavaScript Events
Input Events
Full Screen Support
Working with objects
Optimizing the Installation experience

Silverlight Input Events
- Mouse, Keyboard, Stylus
Supporting Drag and Drop
Full Screen Support
Splash Screens
Accessibility

Introduction to DeepZoom
Using the DeepZoom Composer
Including and Controlling within your Silvelright app

Lap around existing controls
Creating custom controls

Creating and Using Styles
Application Resources
Templates

Understanding DataBinding in Silverlight
DataBinding Modes
DataBinding Syntax
DataContext
Change Notifications
DataTemplates
Data Validation

Understanding Isolated Storage
Prompting mechanisim
File Open Dialogs and Uploads

Instantiating the plug-in
Versioning
Customising the installation experience
XAP files

Visual Studio Team System 2005/8

This course is for developers, project managers, team leaders, testers, dba's and architects that need to understand Team System.

Each section of the course can be taken independently of each other, or we can customise a course based around your specific team profile.

Consultancy on designing project templates, the SDLC, and implementation details is also available - contact us for more information.

Course Outline

This course lasts 4 days

Understanding the differences from VSS
Database Projects and Source Control
Understanding Work Item tracking using the standard CMMI template

Unit Tests
TDD methodology
Isolation and Mocking
Unity IOC Enterprise Block
Database testing
Code Coverage and Code Metrics
Build Automation

Code profiling
Static Code Analysis
Schema and Data Change Management for Databases
Class Designer

Architects Edition Diagrams (Distributed Applications, Logical Infrastructure, Deployment)
Test Edition:
Web tests
Load tests
Manual tests
Generic tests
Ordered tests

Using standard reports
Understanding SQL Report Web Site
Creating custom reports in Visual Studio

Windows Presentation Foundation

Overview

Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsoft's new user interface subsystem and API based on vector graphics and XML, which will make use of 3D computer graphics hardware and Direct3D technologies. WPF delivers remarkable results and flexibility and represents a departure (and replacement) from WinForms

Objectives

This course will give you the skills to begin creating powerful WPF applications, and to understand the Xaml based framwork and object model

Pre-Requisites

You should be an experience .Net developer but need no experience of WPF

Course Outline

This course lasts 2 days

Understanding XAML
Properties, Attributes, Elements
Dependency Properties
Attached Properties
Markup Extensions
Class Hierarchy
Shapes & Transformations
Commands

Simple Controls
Content Controls
Layout Controls
Event Handling
Custom Controls

Understanding Resources
Creating and Using Styles
Creating and Using Tempates

Binding with Xaml
Object Binding
List Binding
Binding to Xml
Validation

WPF Controls on WinForms

WinForm controls on WPF forms

XBAP Applications
Using Browser Style Navigations

Windows Communication Foundation

Overview

WCF is a Service Oriented messaging system that allows programs to communicate locally or remotely - it's Web Services on steroids - and aims to deal with some of the gaps found between .NET Remoting and .NET Web Services. It flexbility means that it is as happy return JSON of REST as it is in delivering transaction support using industry standards

Objectives

This course will bring you up to speed on WCF, it's significant differences from Asp.Net Asmx web services, and will give you the knowledge to correctly implement the technology

Pre-requsites

Strong experience of developing applications within the .NET Framework.

Course Outline

This course lasts 2 days

SEO Overview
- Principles & Tenets of SOA
WCF Overview
Essential WCF concepts
- Addresses
- Contracts
- Bindings
- Endpoints
- Hosting
- Clients

Designing and working with service contracts
Contract overloading and inheritance
Data Contracts
Serialization
Attributes
Versioning
Collections & Generics
Fault Contracts

Authentication & Authorization
Transfer and Message Security
Taking a Scenario-Driven Approach to Security

Behaviours
Per-Call Services
Per-Session Services
Singleton Service
Throttling
Operations Request-Reply One-Way Callback Events Streaming

Service Concurrency Mode
Instance Management and Concurrency
Deadlocked Avoidance
Synchronization Context
Callbacks

Windows Workflow

Overview

Windows Workflow provides a foundation for defining, executing and managing workflows and rules based engines. It represents an exiting new technology in is a cor part of .Net 3. WF support both sequential and state-machine workflows and comes with a graphical workflow designer hosted in Visual Studio.

Objectives

This course will give you the skills to begin using WF within you applications, and to understand when and where it is appropiate to do so.

Pre-Requisites

You should be an experience .Net developer but need no experience of WF

Course Outline

This course lasts 2 days

What is WF?
Authoring Workflow
Code and XAML
Types of Workflow
Motivation for using Windows Workflow

Worflow Runtimes and Instances
Basic Activities
Dealing with Exceptions
Dealing with Cancellations
Passing simple parameters in and out
When to use Sequential Workflows

What are Event Driven Workflow (State Machines)
Motivation for using State Machines
Components involved
- Interfaces
- External Data Exchange Service
- Local Services
State Activities
Understanding State Diagrams
Passing data back to the client

Basic Activities
External Methods and Workflows
Logic Flow
Events
Parallel
Policy and Rules
Creating Custom Activities

Exposing workflow as web services
Invoking web services
Using Asmx and WCF
Authentication and Authorisation

Hosting the Workflow runtime
Persistence
Tracking
Scheduling

Windows Live Platform Development

Overview

Windows Live Platform is focused on providing developers and businesses with everything they need to build on top of Windows Live services. Microsoft is providing APIs for core Live services - such as Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live Messenger, Live ID, Search, and Virtual Earth - so that developers can access and use these services in the applications they create.

Objectives

This course will introduce many of the Live Api's giving you the skills to incorporate many of the technologies into your web sites very quickly.

Pre-Requisites

You should be an experienced .net developer, but no experience of Windows Live Development is needed (though it would be useful to have tried them out as a user)

Course Outline

This course lasts 3 daysDeveloper Overviews:

Windows Live Search
Windows Live Spaces
Virtual Earth
Windows Live Expo
Silverlight Streaming
Windows Live Data
Windows Live ID
Windows Live Controls

What is Silverlight Streaming?
Steps to use Silverlight Streaming
FAQ
References
REST Api
Command Line Encoding

What is Windows Live Id?
How Live Id Works?
Options for integration
- RPS
- WebAuth
- Client SDK

Overview of Live Controls
Live Contacts Control
Live Photo Controls
Messenger IM Control
Live Tools for Visual Studio

Overview
Delegation
Live Data Authentication
Contacts & Photos API
Application Based Storage API

Overview
Presense API
JSON Support
Live Messenger Library

Overview
Exploring QuickApps
Tafiti
Contoso Bicycle Club
Constoso University
Contoso ISV
Adventure Works Resorts
Video.Show

Spaces Apis
Live Events
RSS Feeds
MetaWeblog
RSS Alerts
Alerts API

Understanding VE Capabilties
Including VE Maps on your site
Driving Directions
Layers
Customisation

Test Driven Development (TDD) in .Net

TDD brings low bug counts and drives ambiguity out of the development process. Learn how, and then adopt it using vb.net or c#.

Objectives

This course is for developers who want to adopt the test driven development methodology for development projects using Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2008 or VS 2005 with Nunit.

The course can be run in either c# or vb.net.

Pre-requisites

Delegates should be experienced .net developers (either vb.net or c#) fully conversant with object orientation techniques.

About TDD

"Over the last twenty years I’ve seen the rise of Structured Programming and Object-Oriented Programming and Message Passing and the Relational Model and those are all good things, but TDD is the single biggest advance in my lifetime. It might (finally) turn software from an amateur’s kitchen to an engineering discipline." ~ Tim Bray (hypertext evangelist, member of the W3C XML Working Group and co-editor of the XML specification.)

http://www.testdriven.com/ -community site for TDD
http://www.nunit.org/ - the open source Nunit utility for creating unit tests.
http://www.franklins.net/fnetdotnetrocks/dotnetrocks.aspx?showid=68 - Entertaining .Net Rocks show that talks about TDD
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsent7/html/vxconTestingOverview.asp - testing section in MSDN

Course Outline

This course lasts 2 days

Overview
- History of TDD
- Benefits of TDD
What makes TDD?
- Testing: Customer Tests vs Programmer Tests
- Refactoring
- TDD Organisations and People

Where do we start?
From feature to task to test list
Testing Frameworks
The Assert class
Writing tests
Running tests
Getting tests to pass

What is it? An Example.
Refactoring Principles
Code "Bad Smells"
Refactoring methods
Refactoring tools

Options of isolating tests
Mocking with interfaces
Static and Dynamic Mock objects
Mocking Frameworks
- TypeMock Isolator
- NMock
- Unity Enterprise Block

Defining Customer Tests (acceptance tests)
Tools for automating customer tests
Driving development with customer tests

Real world scenarios
Putting TDD into practise

Silverlight 2 for Designers

Silverlight training for interactive Designers typically from a Flash/ActionScript background who are looking to transfer skills for developing Microsoft Silverlight version 2 rich internet applications.

Course Outline

This course lasts 2 days

What is Silverlight
Architecture
Running Silverlight Apps
Creating Silverlight Apps
Tools
1.0 vs 2
Related Technologies and tools
- Xaml and WPF
- Asp.Net

Xaml Syntax
Xaml Namescopes
Silverlight namespace extensions
Markup extensions
- Binding
- StaticResource
- TemplateBinding
XamlReader

Silverlight Input Events
- Mouse, Keyboard, Stylus
Supporting Drag and Drop
Full Screen Support
Splash Screens
Accessibility

Creating and Using Styles
Application Resources
Templates

Graphics
- Shapes and Drawings
- Brushes
- Imaging
- Video Brush
- Geometries
- Paths
- Transforms
Audio and Video
- Overview
- Formats
- MediaElement
- Media Encoder
Animation
- Overview
- Key-Frame Animations
- Animations in code

Introduction to DeepZoom
Using the DeepZoom Composer
Including and Controlling within your Silvelright app