ASP.NET MVC is a fascinating technology that provides an alternative to Web forms for building Web applications. Instead of building pages using server controls that provide relatively little control over the HTML they produce, MVC gives you complete control. The course starts with an introduction to ASP.NET MVC and the Model-View-Controller pattern on which it is based. YouÆll learn about the main differences between MVC and Web forms applications, and see how to build a simple MVC application with Visual Studio.

AJAX has brought a rich inactive content to web pages and web applications. The newest vision of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010 brings many plus to creating AJAX web content. This course covers some of the basics for using AJAX, dealing with server aide and client AJAX controls. Creating content rich AJAX applications will show how to use the UpdatePanel controls, page methods and other items. The AJAX Control Toolkit section will explain the controls, extenders, and script manager. The next part of the course explores the jQuery Library, which Microsoft has fully embraced as its client-side javascript library.

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 Server provides a wealth of services that you can use, customize, and extend to augment and streamline your business processes.

You’ll learn the fundamentals of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as well as those of the most popular supporting technologies. See how to create well-formed XML data and use namespaces. Understand how to perform validation using Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and XML Schemas (XSD). See how to manipulate XML data using the Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX). Learn how to create Web Services using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Become familiar with stylesheets using XSL for Transfomation (XSLT). See the latest XML technologies like XQuery, XML Encryption, and Resource Description Framework (RDF).