0223 - Introduction to ASP.NET

Course Description

Course Details Learn how to use Microsoft's Visual Web Developer to create exciting, interactive, and polished Web sites with ASP.NET. You'll begin this hands-on course by adding powerful controls to your Web pages, giving visitors the ability to interact with your Web site. You'll find out how to connect to a database, read the information stored inside, and display it exactly the way you want. You'll find out how style sheets make it easy to give every page of your Web site the same clean, consistent, and professional look, and you'll learn how to create master pages to ensure that each page you create uses a common set of controls. Using ASP.NET's powerful membership features, you'll develop a true community-based Web site that allows users to register, log in, create and update profiles, and post messages to a forum. You'll explore the issue of Web security, and you'll discover some simple things you can do to protect your site and prevent the most common types of attacks. How It Works This course is fully online, you require internet access and an email account. The course duration is 6 weeks, followed by a 2-week period to complete the final exam (online, open book). Lessons are released on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, for a total of 12. You are not required to be online at any specific time. In addition to the specific lesson content, there is a discussion board with each lesson and often there is an optional assignment to apply the learning. Following each lesson, there is a short multiple choice quiz. Your score on these quizzes does not count towards the final mark but completing these helps solidify your learning as well as prepare you for the final exam. The final exam is an open-book, multiple choice exam and you need to achieve a minimum of 65% on the final exam to pass the course. There is only one opportunity to pass the exam. A certificate of completion from Ed2Go is available for printing immediately upon successful completion of the course and a certificate from the University of Waterloo will be emailed typically 1-2 weeks later. Many of the Ed2Go courses are eligible towards the various online certificates offered by WatSPEED. Requirements Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition, available at http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/, which are free (software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins); Windows XP (with service Pack 3), Windows Vista (with Service Pack 2), Windows 7, or server editions listed at http://www.microsoft.com/express/Support/; 1 GB RAM or more, 5 GB Free Disk Space.