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Course Name: ASP .NET AJAX and LINQ Training Bootcamp™ (with C#.NET and VB.NET)

Assumed Audience: Programmers familiar with ASP.NET 2.0 or previous versions. This is the class for ASP.NET developers looking to gain understanding of the most important features found in .NET 3.5 and the new C#.NET and VB.NET language support for these new features. AJAX and LINQ are now integral to .NET development. This 2-day class gets you up to speed on the AJAX and LINQ technology new in .NET 3.5.

Brief Course Description: Hands-on introduction and comprehensive 2-day hands-on tutorial of AJAX and LINQ under ASP.NET 3.5 . LINQ can be a confusing technology; attend this course to make sense of LINQ and understand where it fits in your ASP.NET toolbox. The course provides full coverage of AJAX on Day1 and then covers LINQ on Day2. Several hands-on exercises and labs reinforce the lectures and code demonstrations.

Duration: 2 days of comprehensive ASP.NET AJAX and LINQ Training with C# .NET and VB.NET

Format: Instructor-led, hands-on

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0 concepts and facilities is required for attendance. The ideal student has attended and/or is complete command of the content from our ASP.NET 2.0 Training BOOTCAMP with C#.NET (5-day) or the ASP.NET 2.0 Training BOOTCAMP with VB.NET (5-day)

Course Materials: LINQ and AJAX books totaling 500+ pages; Resource Pack with CD

Course Description Summary: : This is a fast paced, 2-day, in depth and hands-on ASP.NET AJAX and LINQ training using C#.NET and VB.NET. This class is about 50% lecture with code demonstrations and about 50% lab work thereafter. The lab work includes many short exercises and several in-depth projects. The student exits this class aware of best practices in ASP.NET AJAX and LINQ and ready to build production ASP.NET applications incorporating these technologies using C#.NET and VB.NET.

The Outline

PART 01: ASP.NET AJAX

• Classic ASP.NET Page Life Cycle vs. The AJAX model of page update
• Browser Support for AJAX: XMLHttprequest Object
• The minimal components of an AJAX framework; the role of JavaScript and XML
• ASP.NET AJAX
• Microsoft Client Libary for AJAX overview
• Examples of what you can do with AJAX
• Sample of simple AJAX code
• AJAX and the Visual Studio Debugger

• The WEB.CONFIG file
• The Runtime engine
• The Scriptmanager control. Script loading, Script error handling
• The mechanics of partial page rendering using AJAX
• Defining updateable regions
• The UpdatePanel control
• Triggering the panel update
• Triggering periodic updates to the panel
• Providing user feedback; client side events
• passing data and animating panels during updates
• Summary
• The AJAX Controls for ASP.NET
• The Extender controls and ExtenderControl class
• The Accordion control
• The Rating control
• The ReorderList control
• The TabContainer control
• AJAX Control Toolkit Extenders: Panel, Button, Popup, UI, Input and Animation Extenders
• Summary

• Forms authentication services
• User profiling services
• Client-side architecture
• Remote procedure calls in AJAX
• The Server API for remote calls
• Using Web Services for remote calls
• Using Page methods for remote calls
• Bridging existing web services to work with AJAX

• AJAX Pluses and Minuses
• Best practices, patterns and services
• Periodic Screen Refresh
• Reducing Page flicker

PART 02: LINQ (Language INtegrated Query)

• A brief history of Object Relational mapping: Is LINQ an ORM? What is LINQ?
• Objects, Data and Mappings. What PROBLEMS does LINQ solve, or help solve?
• LINQ concepts and facilities
• Declarative programming, Type checking
• LINQ: To ADO, to XML, to Objects
• passing data and animating panels during updates
• Summary

• Generics, Delegates and Anonymous Methods
• Enumerators and Yield
• Type inference, lambda expressions, extension methods, anonymous types, query expressions
• "relaxed delegates" and XML support unique to VB.NET
• the Yield keyword and anaonymous methods unique to VB.NET
• LINQ queries and query operators
• Where operator
• Projection operators
• Ordering and Grouping operators
• Join and Set operators
• Aggregate operators
• Generation, Quantifier and Partitioning operators
• Element operators
• Summary
• Deferred evaluation; extension methods resolution
• Conversion operators
• AsEnumerable
• ToArray and ToList
• ToDictionary and ToLookup
• Join and Set operators
• OfType and Cast
• Summary

• LINQ to SQL
• Entities in LINQ and SQL
• Data Modeling and Data Querying
• Updating Data, binding to Metadata
• LINQ and .NET type system differences, and nullable types
• LINQ to DataSet
• Using LINQ to load and query a DataSet
• Using LINQ to load and query a Typed DataSet (.XSD)
• Using LINQ to access untyped DataSet data
• LINQ and .NET type system differences, and nullable types
• LINQ to Entities

• Understanding LINQ to XML
• The LINQ to XML API
• XElement, XDocument and XAttribute
• XNode, XName and XNamespace
• All the other (minor) "X" Classes in LINQ
• Traversing and Modifying XML using LINQ
• LINQ to XML queries
• Attributes and Elements
• The XNode Selection Methods
• Deferred Query Evaluation
• Using LINQ Queries over XML
• Support for XSD and XPath and System.Xml.XPath
• Summary

• Traditional ADO approach reviewed
• Physical Data Abstraction
• What exactly is an ADO.NET 'Entity'??
• Entity Data Modeling. Querying Entities with ADO.NET
• Changing and updating ADO.NET Entities
• LINQ to SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

The student that completes this course is knowledgeable in AJAX and LINQ under .NET 3.5, and knows how to:

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