ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX and jQuery Using Visual Basic 2010 DVD

EBook Description: AJAX has brought a rich inactive content to web pages and web applications. The newest vision of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010 brings many plus to creating AJAX web content. This course covers some of the basics for using AJAX, dealing with server aide and client AJAX controls. Creating content rich AJAX applications will show how to use the UpdatePanel controls, page methods and other items. The AJAX Control Toolkit section will explain the controls, extenders, and script manager. The next part of the course explores the jQuery Library, which Microsoft has fully embraced as its client-side javascript library. You'll learn about the library and how to put it to use, including how to write effective selectors to create matched sets of elements. Then you'll learn how to bring a page alive with jQuery, using features like changing page content, animating elements on the page, and using the jQuery UI Library for even more effects. One of the original motivations for jQuery was to support AJAX, and the library includes rich support for asynchronous calls to the server. You�ll also learn how to make use of various other jQuery extensions and see how to build your own plugin. Prerequisites: This course assumes that you are familiar and experienced with Microsoft's .NET Framework and ASP.NET development tools. You should be familiar with Web development and understand how HTTP and HTML work to produce Web pages for the user. You should have experience writing applications with ASP.NET 3.5, 4.0, or later Web forms, and be familiar with how ASP.NET processes page requests, and have strong experience with .NET Framework 3.5, 4.0, or later programming. You should have experience with Visual Studio 2008, 2010, or later for building Web application projects. Experience with building database applications using these tools will be helpful, although not strictly necessary. You should also have some experience with writing javascript.

AJAX has brought a rich inactive content to web pages and web applications. The newest vision of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010 brings many plus to creating AJAX web content. This course covers some of the basics for using AJAX, dealing with server aide and client AJAX controls. Creating content rich AJAX applications will show how to use the UpdatePanel controls, page methods and other items. The AJAX Control Toolkit section will explain the controls, extenders, and script manager.

The next part of the course explores the jQuery Library, which Microsoft has fully embraced as its client-side javascript library. You'll learn about the library and how to put it to use, including how to write effective selectors to create matched sets of elements. Then you'll learn how to bring a page alive with jQuery, using features like changing page content, animating elements on the page, and using the jQuery UI Library for even more effects. One of the original motivations for jQuery was to support AJAX, and the library includes rich support for asynchronous calls to the server. You�ll also learn how to make use of various other jQuery extensions and see how to build your own plugin.

Prerequisites: This course assumes that you are familiar and experienced with Microsoft's .NET Framework and ASP.NET development tools. You should be familiar with Web development and understand how HTTP and HTML work to produce Web pages for the user. You should have experience writing applications with ASP.NET 3.5, 4.0, or later Web forms, and be familiar with how ASP.NET processes page requests, and have strong experience with .NET Framework 3.5, 4.0, or later programming. You should have experience with Visual Studio 2008, 2010, or later for building Web application projects. Experience with building database applications using these tools will be helpful, although not strictly necessary. You should also have some experience with writing javascript.

2.ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart

The purpose of ASP.NET JumpStart is to show readers the practical applications of .NET and ASP.NET by illustrating how to build Web-based applications using Web Forms and Web Services. Emphasis will be on good programming standards and practices. The reader will be taken from an introduction of the VB .NET language to intermediate topics through a step-by-step approach, which gives the reader the opportunity to try out the practices presented in each chapter.

Mastering ASP.NET Ajax Library

Description

In this series Craig Shoemaker walks through the new ASP.NET Ajax Library. Craig will cover how to use the ScriptLoader, DataView Control, DataContext Control, Observer Framework, and how to work with WCF Data Services. Craig will cover how to use the library in pure HTML or with ASP.NET WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.

1 - Using the ScriptLoader

In this episode Craig walks through using the ScriptLoader to manage your client side scripts. He covers how to use a CDN, how to maintain debug and release versions of your scripts, and how to minify your javascript.

2 - Working with the DataView Control Pt. 1

In this episode Craig digs into the DataView Control in the ASP.NEt Ajax Library. Craig covers the basics of the DataView Control and covers Binding Modes and Binding Customizations.

3 - Working with the DataView Control Pt. 2

Craig digs deeper into using the DataView control. He talks about customizing the look and feel of the view as well as using Ajax with ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC.

4 - Working with the DataView Control Pt. 3

In this episode Craig digs even deeper into the DataView Control showing how to use template designation and template events.

5 - Using the Observer Framework

In this episode Craig looks at using the Observer Framework including working with complex objects, arrays, and the observe method.

6 - Working with WCF Data Services

In this (the final) episode Craig covers how to hook up a WCF Data Service and link it up to the DataContext class.

ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development

Create your own Content Management System with the understanding needed to expand it and add new functionality as your needs grow
Learn to build a fully functional application with very little code and set up users and groups within your application
Manage the layout of your site using Master Pages, Content Placeholders, Themes, Regions, and Zones
A step by step guide with plenty of code snippets and screen images

In Detail

ASP.NET 3.5 is equipped with a built in security system, standard design templates, and easy configurations for database connections, which make it the ideal language for building a content management system. With the strong community support for the ASP.NET platform, you can be assured that what you write today will be around and supported for years to come. You can imagine how easy it is to get lost in the myriad features especially if you are a newcomer.

This book shows you how to make use of ASP.NETs features and create a functional Content Management System quickly and conveniently. You will learn how to build your site and see the different ways in which you can customize your code to fit your needs. Withthis book in hand, you can easily set up users and groups, create valuable content for your users, and manage the layout of your site efficiently. All you need is a basic understanding of coding and a desire to learn, and this book will take care of the rest.

This book will teach you to get your site up and running quickly, and maintain its content even if you have little or no web design or programming experience. It will give you all the knowledge you need to use the tools as well as the code required to make yourself a strong developer far beyond your site. It begins with setting up your programming environment and coding a Content Management System. You will learn how to install and configure a database and connect it to your CMS. You will be able to create content and manage the layout of your site, and also make it available beyond the browser. At the end of this book, you will have designed and built a CMS that allows you to administer an Articles section, Images and Files sections, as well as a full set of Administrator tools for your site.

What you will learn from this book?

Set up your programming environment and jump right into coding a completely functional Content Management System
Install and configure a database and connect it to your Content Management System
Learn all about n tier architecture and how it can work within Content Management Systems
Set up users and groups within your application and learn about the management tools
Create and manage valuable content within your site for the users and learn how to make it available beyond the browser
Learn all about Master Pages, Content Placeholders, Themes/Skins, and managing the layout of your site
Begin digging into site navigation and looking into the concepts of inheritance
Use Administrator privileges to manage your site from a single point

Approach

This step by step tutorial shows the reader how to build an ASP.NET Content Management System from scratch. You will first learn the basics of a content management system and how to set up the tools you need to build your site. Then, you start building your site, setting up users, and adding content to your site. You will be able to edit the content of your site and also manage its layout all by yourself. Towards the end, you will learn to manage your site from a single point and will have all the information you need toextend your site to make it more powerful.

Filled with plenty of code snippets and screen images to keep you on track as well as numerous additional samples to show you all the exciting alternatives to explore,this book prepares you for all the challenges you can face in development.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for beginner to intermediate ASP.NET users who have managed to learn Visual Web Developer and want to take on their first real world application. It will help those who have used SQL Server Express, completed a few sample projects, and now wish to explore a Content Management System.

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

You learn how to develop rock solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures not just for mass consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises. Written by Omar AL Zabir, co founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax enabled portal prototype (available online at http://www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server side scalability problems involved. You learn how to: Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n tier, widget based application model Provide drag and drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server side part of the web layer Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows Build client side widgets using javascript for faster performance and better caching Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache friendly web services Overcome javascript performanceproblems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users Deploy and run a high volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructureproblems Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If youre ready to build state of the art, high volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.

2.Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0

This book introduces a fast track path to understanding Atlas, and how this technology can increase the power and functionality of your code while conserving time and effort.
The book begins with a bare bones introduction that explains how Atlas relates to Ajax.

Microsoft Atlas is a web client framework that makes building Ajax style applications easier. It provides a prewritten framework that gives you a structured environment in which to work. Atlas also provides you with an object model and standardized debugging to make development faster and simpler.

Ajax is a new way of combining a number of Web technologies including javascript, dynamic HTML, and a feature known as XmlHttp (which reduces the need for client browsers to constantly reconnect to the server every time new information is downloaded). But at the moment, people developing with Ajax have to write their code from the ground up, which is complex and time consuming.

The book guides you through a series of practical examples that demonstrate the Atlas framework and available controls. After reading this book, youll be able to compile a seamless Atlas based application of your own!

2.ASP.NET Ajax in Action

Ajax has revolutionized the way users interact with web pages today. Gone are frustrating page refreshes, lost scroll positions and intermittent interaction with a web site. Instead, we have a new generation of fast, rich, and more intuitive web applications. The ASP.NET AJAX framework puts the power of Ajax into the hands of web developers.
ASP.NET AJAX, formerly called Atlas, is a new free framework from Microsoft designed to easily add Ajax features to ASP.NET applications. With this technology, ASP.NET developers can easily build more interactive and highly personalized web applications that work across all most popular browsers.ASP.NET AJAX in Action is a fast paced, example rich tutorial designed for ASP.NET web developers and written by ASP.NET AJAX experts Alessandro Garbin Gallo, David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala. This book introduces you to Ajaxapplications and to the ASP.NET AJAX technology. Beginners will appreciate the clear explanations of key ideas and terminology. Intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers will find a no nonsense learning source and well organized reference.

ASP.NET AJAX in Action offers a rich set of examples and meticulous explanations. The extensive code samples are accompanied by accurate and rigorous explanations of the concepts behind development with ASP.NET AJAX. In this book, you will discover how to use Microsoft Ajax Library Partial rendering with UpdatePanels Advanced client and server techniques Ajax Control Toolkit

If you are a web developer looking to bring your web pages to life and to enhance the user experience, this book is for you.

ASP.NET AJAX in Action will give you with the knowledge and tools youneed to more easily craft the next generation of Ajax applications. With the help of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework, Ajax development has never been easier and more instinctive for both client script developers and ASP.NET developers alike.

About the Author

Alessandro Gallo is a Microsoft MVP in the Visual ASP/ASP.NET category and has been an active contributor for the Ajax Control Toolkit project. As a .NET developer/consultant with a primary focus on ASP.NET application design and development, Alessandro has been developing with ASP.NET AJAX since the very first CTP. Notably, he won the Grand Prize at the Mash it up with ASP.NET AJAX contest held by Microsoft in 2006.

David Barkol is a Principal Consultant for Neudesic, one of Microsofts leading .NET professional services firms and a Gold Certified Partner. At Neudesic David specializes in providing custom .NET solutions that leverage technologies such as ASP.NET, Web Services, Windows Forms, SQL Server, and C. He is an MCSD in .NET and a member of the Microsoft ASP.NET Advisory Council. David resides in tropical La Palma, CA.

Rama Krishna Vavilala is a senior software developer/architect at 3C Software, a leading supplier of Cost Management Solutions. He has designed and developed three different versions of Impact:ECS(tm) (3C Softwares product suite). Currently, he is designing an Ajax based web application using ASP.NET AJAX. This application will be a part of the Impact:ECS(tm) suite. He is a regular contributor at The Code Project and has contributed around 20 articles on wide ranging subjects.

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4

Get the definitive guide to programming with ASP.NET 4 technologies. Led by Web development expert Dino Esposito, youll gain the essential architectural insights combined with in depth technical reference that can take you and your solutions to the next level.
Completely reengineered for ASP.NET 4 this definitive guide deftly illuminates the core architecture and programming features of ASP.NET 4 in a single, pragmatic volume. Web development expert Dino Esposito provides essential, architectural level guidance, along with the in depth technical insights designed to take you and your solutions to the next level. The book covers Dynamic Data, AJAX, Microsoft Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, Web forms, LINQ, and security strategies and features extensive code samples in Microsoft Visual C 2010.

Who Should Read This Book?

This is not a book for novice developers and doesnt provide a step by step guide on how to design and code Web pages. So the book is not appropriate if you have only a faint idea about ASP.NET and expect the book to get you started with it quickly and effectively. Once you have grabbed hold of ASP.NET basic tasks and features and need to consolidate them, you enter the realm of this book.

You wont find screen shots here illustrating Microsoft Visual Studio wizards, nor any mention of options to select or unselect to get a certain behavior from your code. Of course, this doesnt mean that I hate Visual Studio or that Im not recommending Visual Studio for developing ASP.NET applications. Visual Studio is a great tool to use to write ASP.NET applications but, judged from an ASP.NET perspective, it is only a tool. This book, instead, is all about the ASP.NET core technology.

I do recommend this book to developers who have knowledge of the basic steps required to build simple ASP.NET pages and easily manage the fundamentals of Web development. This book is not a collection of recipes for cooking good (or just functional) ASP.NET code. This book begins where recipes end. It explains to you the how it works, what you can do, and why you should or should not aspects of ASP.NET. Beginners need not apply, even though this book is a useful and persistent reference to keep on the desk.

Table of Contents

The ASP.NET Runtime Environment
Chapter 1 ASP.NET Web Forms Today

The Age of Reason of ASP.NET Web Forms
The AJAX Revolution
ASP.NET of the Future
Summary
Chapter 2 ASP.NET and IIS

The Web Server Environment

Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#

Book Description
With the incarnations of ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008, programming dynamic data�driven web sites with Microsoft technologies has become easier and much more efficient than ever before. Fewer mouse clicks and fewer lines of code can now enable more powerful features and the tools you need�Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 Express Edition�are free. In Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional, you�ll learn how to best use the free development tools offered by Microsoft to build an online product catalog. You will gain an intimate understanding of every piece of code you write. This understanding will enable you to build your own powerful and flexible web sites efficiently and rapidly with ASP.NET 3.5.

* Build a complete site, including a shopping cart, checkout, product searching, product recommendations, control panel, customer accounts, order processing, and much, much more.
* Explore new challenges and theoretical concepts, which are carefully analyzed and explained throughout the book, with each feature you add to the web site.
* Learn to handle payments by integrating PayPal and DataCash into your site.

What you�ll learn

* Use Microsoft�s Express products to build an online product catalog
* Add payment processing with PayPal and DataCash
* Expand your site�s product listing through web services
* Implement an order pipeline
* Take advantage of search engine optimization techniques to publicize your site

Who this book is for
Developers wanting to build professional e�commerce sites using .NET technologies.

ASP.NET Using Visual C Sharp with KenGet & DonKiely WMV-WMV1

In this course, you'll learn how to use features of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual C# 2010 to build ASP.NET Web pages. You'll gain an understanding of the architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the various ASP.NET server controls. You'll learn to create consistent web sites using Master Pages, add membership features and configure-deploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, direct users using Site Navigation tools, debug .NET, and to display/edit data using ASP.NET and ADO.NET.

In addition, you?ll learn about ASP.NET features, such as support for LINQ (Language Integrated Query), CSS tools, and will become familiar with the tracing features in Visual Studio that help you quickly troubleshoot issues. You will also learn how to work with ASP.NET Profile features, ASP.NET Web Parts, and how to take advantage of creating your own user-defined control. As you progress through the course you will learn about optimizing your sites, the ListView control, and so much more.

In this course, you will learn to:
* Use ASP.NET server controls to generate HTML and to execute event procedures
* Configure and deploy ASP.NET applications
* Promote consistency within your Web site through the use of Master Pages
* Use Membership features to manage your Web users
* Use Site Navigation controls to direct users within your site
* Add scalability and reliability by setting up an out-of-process session state server
* Use ASP.NET?s new CSS tools to create consistent and maintainable sites
* Debug .NET code that runs on the server to generate Web pages and interact with the user
* Find problems in javascript code and learn about other debugging tools in Visual Studio
* Use tracing to find problems in a Web site and monitor performance
* Display and edit data using the databound DataList, Repeater, and ListView controls

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