Prerequisites

CIT 21200
CIT 14000

Offered

Fall, Spring

Software Used

Visual Studio 2008

ASP.NET 3.0

Web browser

Windows Media Player

Adobe Flash plug-in for your favorite browser

Credit By Exam

No

Coordinator

E. Fernandez

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Intro to .NET and Visual Studio

• Successfully install Visual Studio 2008
• Describe the difference between server-side and client-side programming and name one advantage and disadvantage of each.
• List and describe the components of the .NET Framework.
• Locate and describe the purpose of the Visual Studio IDE elements
• Explain the three sections of a basic web page: page directive, doctype, and XHTML with ASP web controls.
• Distinguish between XHTML elements and attributes.
• Describe the three ways to add an event handler for a control.
• Create, build and run a simple Web application.

C# Language Basics

• Explain the general structure of a C# program.
• Declare variables of different data types.
• Explain the difference between initialization and assignment.
• Use operators and expressions to do work in your program.
• Evaluate an expression based on operator precedence.
• Utilize conditional statements to make decisions within your program.
• Utilize loop structures to do work in your program.
• Declare and use arrays to store and retrieve data from memory.

OOP Concepts

• Define the three OOP pillars: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism.
• Define class and distinguish among its three components: name, attributes and operations.
• Explain, to a non-programmer, the difference between a class and an object.
• Given a description, draw a Class Structure Diagram to describe a class.

Web Forms and Controls

• Explain the anatomy of an ASP.NET application.
• Explain the web page life cycle to a non-computer person.
• Create basic web pages with appropriately used web controls.
• Explain the purpose of the web.config file.
• Explain event handling and page postback.
• Be able to diagram the order in which events are fired on a web page.

Debugging and Error Handling

• Explain the importance of error handling.
• Define exception handlers.
• Utilize the Exception class to catch and handle exceptions.
• Log Messages to the Event Log.le.
• Implement custom error pages.
• Utilize tracing to find errors.
• Use the Debugger to step through a program and view object state.

Managing Your Website

• Understand the basic of the CSS standard and how it applies to web controls.
• Create a style sheet.
• Apply a theme to an entire website.
• Implement a master page.
• Create user-friendly navigation utilizing a site map.

Validation

• Use the five Validator controls.
• Create a regular expression to match input to a specified pattern.
• Use validation summary and validation groups.
• Select the best Validator control for a specific purpose.

Working with Data

• Explain what ADO.NET technology is and how .NET applications use is to interact with a database.
• Use ADO.NET in a web application to read, insert, and update data in a database.
• Bind data to controls on an ASP.NET web page.
• Implement a master page.
• Explain the differences between the GridView, DetailsView, ListView, and FormView data controls.

Rich Controls

• Explain the basics of a rich control and how rich controls are used in web forms.
• Insert and utilize the Calendar control.
• Apply the AdRotator control within a website.

State Management

• Use the ViewState collection to store and retrieve data on a page.
• Use custom cookies to store & retrieve data.
• Store & retrieve data using session state.
• Configure session state for your application.
• Explain the differences between view state, session state and custom cookies.
• Transfer information between pages using cross-page posting and query strings.
• Store global objects using application state.