Day 1

Chapter 1: Planning a Web Site

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Students will be able to:

• Explain the relationships between Microsoft Web tools and technologies, especially active server pages, database access technologies, and Microsoft Transaction Server.
• Discuss the recommended process for developing a Web-based solution.
• Explain the function of the Web Life Cycle in creating a Web-based solution.
• Summarize the responsibilities of Web site development team members.
• Describe how different Microsoft server and client products address security issues such as authentication, authorization, and privacy.
• Describe the general architecture of the State University Web application.

Chapter 2: Introducing Microsoft Visual InterDev

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Students will be able to:

• Create a Web site using Visual InterDev.
• Author a static HTML page.
• Create a site diagram.
• Use Visual InterDev version-control tools.

Chapter 3: Using Dynamic HTML

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Students will be able to:

• Describe the purposes of Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), JavaScript, and JScript™ development software.
• Explain the purpose and structure of the browser object model and the document object model as implemented by Internet Explorer 4.0.
• Explain the advantages of using DHTML in Web applications.
• Bind an element's events to a script.
• Explain different approaches to event handling within DOM.
• Use dynamic styles to modify the look of a page element.
• Use dynamic positioning to modify the arrangement of page elements.
• Develop and run scriptlets.

Day 2

Chapter 4: Using Active Server Pages

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Students will be able to:

• List and describe ASP objects.
• Use the Request and Response objects to dynamically change the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) response.
• Create and use cookies.
• Process form data with server-side scripting.
• Save session-specific information by using the Session object.
• Save application-specific information by using the Application object.
• Use a COM component in a Web application.
• Set Internet Information Server and Windows NT file system (NTFS) permissions.
• Allow and deny anonymous logon.

Day 3

Chapter 5: Accessing Databases

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Students will be able to:

• Add a data source name to a project.
• Add a data connection to a project.
• Add a data command to a project.
• Connect the properties for a data-bound control to a Recordset object.
• Use Query Designer to create SQL queries.
• Use Database Designer to create a database.
• Use the FormManager design-time control to create a data input form.

Chapter 6: Understanding Data Access

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Students will be able to:

• Describe the Microsoft universal data access platform.
• Define ADO and RDS, and explain the relationship between them.
• Use ADO to retrieve and update data and to handle errors returned from a data source.
• Discuss the data-binding capabilities of Internet Explorer 4.0.
• Explain how to use RDS and data binding in Internet Explorer to connect page elements to a data source.

Day 4

Chapter 7: Creating COM Components

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Students will be able to:

• Explain how to implement business services as middle-tier COM components.
• State development problems associated with building a three-tier solution.
• List advantages of creating business objects as COM components.
• Build a COM component with Visual Basic 6.0.
• Call an Automation server from an active server page.

Chapter 8: Using Microsoft Transaction Server

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Students will be able to:

• Explain what a transaction is and why it must conform to the ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) test.
• Explain how the two-phase commit process works.
• Describe the architecture of MTS.
• Describe what a business object is and how it works with MTS.
• Explain how the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) handles transactions.
• Use MTS Explorer to create a package and add components to it.
• Add transactional support to a business object.
• Use transactional ASP to integrate business objects.
• Use MTS Explorer to implement security for middle-tier business components.

Day 5

Chapter 9: Integrating Other Microsoft Server-Side Technologies

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Students will be able to:

• Use simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail from a Web site.
• Use Index Server to add search capabilities to a Web page.