ASP.NET AJAX Using Visual Basic

    

Summary:
This course provides a practical introduction to developing rich Internet applications using ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Basic. Because of the rich support provided by Microsoft’s AJAX tools, an ASP.NET programmer can get up and running in this new environment quickly. This course shows the way. It is current to ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. The course begins with a discussion of rich Internet applications, which include substantial client-side code, typically JavaScript. Microsoft’s AJAX tools are surveyed, and a simple AJAX application is illustrated. The JavaScript programming language is covered in enough detail to give the student a good working knowledge of writing client scripts. To retrieve and update information on a Web page from client-side code, the programmer needs to use DHTML or the Document Object Model (DOM), which are discussed in the third chapter along with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Duration:
3 Days/Lecture & Lab

Topics:

• Rich Internet Applications and AJAX
• Using JavaScript
• DHTML, DOM and CSS
• ASP.NET AJAX Client Library
• Partial Page Rendering
• Remote Method Calls
• AJAX Control Toolkit
• Application Services

Prerequisites:
Students should have a good working knowledge of Web application development using ASP.NET, Visual Studio and Visual Basic. The student should have a basic knowledge of HTML. Exposure to JavaScript would be helpful but not required. A basic knowledge of ADO.NET would be helpful for understanding the case study and some of the examples.

Last Update: February 8, 2012