Comprehensive ASP Training (5 days)

Comprehensive ASP Training Overview

In this ASP training course, students will learn to build full-featured, database-driven Web sites. This introductory course for new programmers lays out the basics of server-side Web programming with an introduction to classic programming structures and good programming practices.

Students will apply these programming skills to the development of a fully functional data-driven website with ASP written in VBScript.

Students will harness the power of ASP to remember users with cookies and sessions, collect and process information users enter into an online form, and provide rich integration with databases to track clients, orders, and products using ASP and the enhanced functionality of ASP components.

Comprehensive ASP Training Course Goals

• Learn how ASP works
• Learn the basic syntax of ASP
• Learn to create dynamic interactive pages with ASP
• Learn to work with VBScript control structures
• Learn to use VBScript built-in functions
• Learn to work with ASP's built-in objects
• Learn to validate forms with ASP
• Learn to write functions and subroutines in ASP
• Learn to send email with ASP
• Learn to use third-party components
• Learn to manipulate files with ASP
• Learn/Review basic SQL
• Learn to manipulate database data with ASP

Comprehensive ASP Training Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• HTML

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

• CSS
• Basic Programming

Comprehensive ASP Training Course Outline

1. Active Server Pages: A Web Server-Side Technology
   1. Client-side vs. Server-side Web Technologies
   2. The Web's Client-Server Relationship
   3. Which Web Servers Support Active Server Pages?
2. Writing ASP Pages
   1. ASP Code in an HTML Context
   2. ASP Code is "Language Neutral"
   3. VBScript in ASP
   4. ASP Scriptlets
   5. VBScript Strings
   6. An Abbreviation for Response.Write
   7. Developing ASPs
   8. ASP Directives, Statements, Expressions and Comments
   9. VBScript Flexibility and Good Programming Practices
3. Processing Data from Online Forms
   1. The FORM Tag and its Attributes
   2. ASP Objects
   3. The Request and Response Objects
   4. Scalar Variables in ASP
   5. Customizing a Page for the Visitor
4. Conditional Constructs - IF Statements
   1. Comparison Operators in VBScript
   2. Adding an Else Clause
   3. Implementing an IF...ELSE...END IF Conditional
   4. Adding One or More ELSEIF Clauses
   5. The Logical AND and OR
   6. Combining the Form and its Processing Code in One ASP File
5. Working with Cookies
   1. Setting and Retrieving a Cookie
   2. Cookie Properties
   3. Expiring a Cookie
6. Maintaining State with the Session and Application Objects
   1. The Session Object
      1. Storing and Retrieving Values in the Session Object
      2. Session Properties and Methods
   2. The Application Object
7. Working with Components
   1. Instantiating Component Objects
   2. Sending Email with CDONTS
8. Writing to a Text File
   1. Writing to a Tab-Delimited Text File
9. Loop Structures in ASP
   1. For...Next Loops
   2. Populating Select Lists
   3. Collections in ASP
   4. For Each...Next Loops and Collections
10. ASP-to-Database Integration with ADO
    1. Database Commands with SQL
    2. The ADO Object Model
    3. Retrieving a Record from the Database with ASP
    4. The Connection Object's Execute Method
    5. Building an Interface for Updating Client Records
11. VBScript Subroutines and Functions
    1. Subroutines
    2. Functions
12. Drilling Down and the Query String
    1. Building the Query String into a Link
    2. Generating Drill Down Links Dynamically
    3. Building an Interface for Deleting a Record
13. File Conventions
    1. Connection Pooling
    2. Dynamic Connection Strings
    3. Default METHOD and ACTION Values
14. Advanced Data Drill-Downs
    1. Passing Data via the Query String
    2. Using Drill-Downs to Reformat Data
    3. Creating Sortable Tables
15. Displaying Variables
    1. Creating an Include to Display Variable Values for Debugging
16. Displaying a Portion of a Recordset
    1. Displaying the Next n Records
    2. How the Process Works
17. Password Protection with Session Variables
    1. Adding Password Protection to Pages
18. Stored Procedures in ASP
    1. Creating a Stored Procedure in the Database
    2. Advantage of Stored Procedures
    3. Calling a Stored Procedure
    4. Using Stored Procedures to Insert and Update Data
19. Working with the File System in ASP
    1. The FileSystemObject
    2. Creating or Opening a Text File
    3. Methods of the TextStream Object
    4. Storing Text to a File
    5. The File Object
    6. The Folder Object
    7. Working with Files and Directories
20. Processing File Uploads
    1. Obtaining a Component for Processing File Uploads
    2. The AspUpload Component
    3. Building an HTML Form that Supports File Uploads
    4. Processing the File on the Server with AspUpload
    5. Processing Files and Entered Text
    6. SetMaxSize
    7. Manipulating Files via AspUpload
    8. Creating an New Directory
    9. Restricting Your Upload to Certain File Extensions
    10. Building a Resume Submission Interface
21. Batch Updating
    1. Opening a Recordset for Batch Updating
    2. Editing the Records Row by Row
    3. Updating the Batch
    4. Benefits of Batches
    5. Some Useful VBScript Functions
22. Using rs.Update Instead of INSERT
    1. rs.Update
23. Form Validation with Server-Side JScript
    1. Server-Side Form Validation with JScript
24. Transactions in ASP
    1. Transactions
    2. Handling Errors
    3. Catching Database Errors
25. Creating Message Boards
    1. The HTML Files
    2. The Database
    3. The Interface
26. Regular Expressions
    1. Creating and Executing Regular Expressions with exec()
    2. Special Characters for Pattern Matching
    3. Escape Sequences for Special Characters
    4. Specifying Ranges in Patterns
    5. Matching a Specified Number of Occurrences
    6. Character-Range Escape Sequences
    7. Matching at the Beginning or End of a String with ^ and $

Comprehensive ASP Training Course Materials

In addition to a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples, each student will also receive a one-year subscription to Webucator's online reference library, which contains hundreds of the most current electronic technology books - a $149.95 per student value.

Comprehensive ASP Training Technical Requirements

1. Operating System Options
   • Windows Vista
   • Windows XP with Service Pack 2
2. Internet Information Services
   • Instructions
3. Microsoft Access 2000 or later

Class Files for Comprehensive ASP Training

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