Advanced ASP.NET 4.5 training course

Advanced ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Architecture Review
• Designing Tiered Applications
• What layers and tiers do you need or want
• Choices for passing data through layers
• Methodologies

LINQ

• LINQ to Objects
• LINQ to XML
• LINQ Data Access
• LINQ to SQL
• LINQ to Entities (Entity Framework)
• Model First vs Code First
• Incorporating validation & business logic

Parallel Programming

• The Task Parallel Library
• Using PLINQ

Services

• ASMX vs WCF
• Creating WCF Contracts and Services
• WCF Behaviours
• Consuming WCF
• WCF configuration
• Specialised Data Services

Using ASP.NET AJAX

• Introduction to AJAX
• ASP.NET AJAX Overview
• Using AJAX Extensions
• Calling Web Services from the Client
• Updating the UI
• Using jQuery in the client
• Dealing with Exceptions
• ASP.NET Ajax Server Control & Toolkit

ASP.NET Security

• Protecting against attack
• The OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities and how to protect against them

HTML 5

• Visual Studio Support for HTML
• Features of HTML5
• Using With MVC and ASP.NET
• Mobile and Tablet support

Unit Tests and Test Driven Development (TDD) in .NET

• Understanding Unit Testing
• Using the Microsoft Testing Framework
• Writing Unit Tests
• Isolating tests
• Understanding Refactoring
• Testing MVC applications

ASP.NET MVC 4

• Understanding the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• MVC vs Web Forms
• Key MVC Components
• Controllers
• View and View Engines
• ASPX vs Razor
• Models
• Layout Pages
• Navigation
• Validation
• Ajax and MVC
• Unobtrusive Ajax
• Model Binding
• Security - authentication and authorisation
• Using ViewModels and Repositories
• Web API for REST based services