Explore Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0

The Explore Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series brings you over 40 ASP.NET 2.0 Webcasts. Register for this series and you will discover how to build high-performance Web applications with new caching and client-side postback features, extend and customize ASP.NET using the new provider model, and utilize the new data access, security, and Web part controls in Visual Studio 2005.

This month the Webcast team has brought back Fritz Onion to introduce Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 to developers who are currently working with ASP.NET 1.1. During this 15-part series, learn the new features of this platform, which range from declarative data binding to storing per-client profile data, and hear practical advice about how to best incorporate these features into your applications. Each Webcast has an accompanying online Virtual Lab, which gives you an opportunity to test the concepts yourself. Click here for the 15-part series with Fritz Onion.

This month the MSDN Virtual Lab team has provided seven new ASP.NET 2.0 labs. Virtual labs run in a hosted environment, allowing you to develop Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 from the comfort of your Web browser.

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ASP.NET is loaded with new features designed to make building sophisticated Web sites easier than ever before. The exercises include creating a web site, working with master and content pages, and using the Web Site Administration Tool.

In this lab we'll see how ASP.NET 2.0 makes building data-driven pages easier than ever before by providing data controls such as GridView and DetailsView to render data into HTML, and data source controls such as SqlDataSource and ObjectDataSource to declaratively bind data controls to data sources

In this lab, you'll build a secure administrative interface for an application, restricting the application's usage to authenticated users. You'll discover ASP.NET 2.0's membership service for managing users and user credentials, login controls for logging in users, creating new users, and more.

In this lab, you'll get first-hand experience using master pages, themes, and skins. First, you'll add a master page to the site. Next, you'll theme the site using a custom theme. Finally, you'll use a MultiView control to offer users a choice of ways to view comic book data, and you'll combine DataList controls and custom HTTP handlers to implement a new view of the comic database.

In this lab, you'll put these features of ASP.NET 2.0 to work building a modern navigation UI into a comic book Web site. By applying a combination of Menu controls, SiteMapDataSource controls, and SiteMapPath controls, you'll create a data-driven navigational system that automatically adapts to changes in site structure.

Web Parts is a framework for building highly customizable portal-style pages. You compose Web Parts pages from "Web Parts," which can be Web controls, user controls, or custom controls. End users can customize Web Parts pages by changing the page layout, adding and removing Web Parts, editing Web Parts properties, establishing connections between Web Parts, and more. In this lab, you'll build a Web Parts page and use it to familiarize yourself with the Web Parts infrastructure built into ASP.NET.

The provider model used by ASP.NET 2.0's state management services makes state storage infinitely flexible. In this lab, you'll write a custom site map provider that retrieves site map data from the a comic book website database rather than an XML file. The custom provider will enable site map data to be stored in the website database alongside the comic book data itself.

Whether you are interested in building Web applications with better security, spending less time working with site navigation, or reusing functionality with the Web Part system, Microsoft E-Learning courses provide the content you want, when you want it. Learn at your own pace. Each lesson includes hands-on virtual labs and offline functionality. These courses, valued at $99.00 each, won't be free forever, so sign on today for your 90-day subscription.

This course provides students with a focused, hands-on environment to experience the new features and functionality of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 product related to building Web Applications with ASP.NET 2.0.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications. Specifically, this course concentrates on the new Web development environment, data-bound controls, and ASP.NET security. The course includes sample code in both Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications. The course focuses on Application Services, State Management and Configuration and Instrumentation. The course includes sample code in both Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications. The course focuses on Master Pages, Personalization, and Web Parts. The course includes sample code in both Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#.

Join us for a detailed exploration of ASP.NET 2.0 and discover how this powerful framework can help you build dynamic, high-performance, data-driven Web applications. In this three-part tour-de-force, you'll explore valuable aspects of ASP.NET 2.0 that will help you create better Web applications with less hassle than ever before. Click here to get your free ticket to ASP.NET 2.0.

Discover what is new in ASP.NET 2.0 with a free Microsoft Skills Assessment. After taking the assessment, you will receive an individually tailored learning plan with links to valuable ASP.NET 2.0 information. Click here to assess your skills and learn more about ASP.NET 2.0.

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