The Microsoft ASP.NET environment offers Web application developers unprecedented performance and rapid-development capabilities. Incorporating XML Web services and Web Forms, ASP.NET makes full use of the object-oriented classes of the .NET platform and the productivity of Visual Studio.
In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop and deploy Web applications with ASP.NET and Visual Studio. You learn how to create consistent user interfaces with Master pages, Themes and Skins; retrieve, modify and report on data from any data source; and secure access to the application using Web Forms authentication.
In this course, you create a multitier Web site using Visual Studio and .NET. You learn how to design for data independence with Entity Framework, LINQ and ADO.NET, program a business layer with stateful objects and distributed transactions. You also develop fast, efficient Web pages with WCF Web Services and jQuery.
In this course, you learn how to make effective use of Web services in .NET and employ five distinct Web service frameworks that are supported with versions 2.0 to 4 of .NET, and find out where each can be best applied. You will also learn to employ the tools provided by Visual Studio to integrate Web services into a wide variety of client applications: desktop applications with Windows Forms and WPF, Web applications with ASP.NET and Microsoft Ajax Library, and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Silverlight.
