CS432 Client-Server Programming

General

• Module outline.

Useful Books

1. Richard York, "Beginning CSS", Wrox Press

Final

• Final

Lab Handouts

• Labs 1 and 2 (Week 1): Building N-Tier Application: Lab 1;
  • The First App (part 1)
    • Northwind.mdb
    • Form1.vb
      
  • The App with objects and layers (part 2)
    • UI.vb
      
    • Order.vb
      
    • BL.vb
      
• Lab 3 (Week 2): Writing application on local machine web server - no handout given
• Lab 4 (Week 2): Writing web applications on sage
  • App1 - the old way
    • app1.aspx
    • TextBoxResult.aspx
  • App2 - event-driven programming in Asp.net and using asp.net server controls
    • app2-1.aspx (text box and label controls)
    • app2-2.aspx (drop down list box control)
• Lab 5 (Week 3): Codebehind and database-driven applications
  • App3 - Codebehind and partial class
    • app3-UI.aspx (using codebehind with drop down list box)
    • app3.aspx.vb (codebehind)
    • app3-UI-validation.aspx (validation control)
    • app3-valid.aspx.vb (codebehind)
  • App4 - Database application using SqlDataSource control and codebehind
    • DBapp1.aspx (UI)
    • DBapp1.aspx.vb (Codebehind)
    • Solution (to DB problem)
• Lab 6 (Week 3): Toward ntier database-driven applications
  • App5 - ObjectDataSource
    • Necessary Files
• Lab 7 (Week 4): More Web Contols
  • App6 - GridView control
    • DBApp2.aspx
    • DBApp3.aspx (Grid view with dropdown list)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
    • solution
• Lab 8 (Week 4): Website without code
  • App7 - Todo list
    • Movie and stylesheet
• Lab 9 (Week 5): Session Variables
  • App8 - Session
    • Session Lab Files (sage/s1/SessionApp/SessionApp.aspx)
    • GridView Files (sage/s1/GridView/SessionApp.aspx)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
    • Solution (sage/s1/cartapp1/catalog.aspx; sage/s1/cartapp2/catalog.aspx)
• Lab 10 (Week 5): Gave out midterm 1
• Lab 11 (Week 6): GridView Control Columns
  • App9 - Button and Hyperlink
    • Lab 11 (sage/s1/gridview2/catalog.aspx)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
    • Solution
• Lab 12 (Week 6): Master Pages
  • App10 - Using master pages
    • Lab 12 (sage/s1/masterp/catalog.aspx)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
• Lab 13 (Week 7):
  • App11 - Themes and Skins
    • Lab 13 (sage/s1/themes/catalog.aspx)
    • SampleThemes.zip (From .NET Tips and Tricks)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
• Lab 14 (Week 7):
  • App12 - Formview and DetailsView
    • Lab 14 (sage/s1/formview/formview.aspx)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
• Lab 15 (Week 8):
  • App13 - SiteMap and Bread crumbs
    • Lab 15 (sage/s1/sitemap/catalog.aspx)
    • Things to do (Additional exercises for you)
• Lab 16 (Week 8):
  • App14 - In-class assignment (part 1)
    • Book Application - part 1 (Courtesy Dan Wilson)
    • solution (in C#) (Courtesy Dan Wilson)
• Lab 17 (Week 9):
  • App15 - In-class assignment (part 2)
    • Book Application - part 2 (Courtesy Dan Wilson)

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3

Midterm(s)

• Midterm 1; getPrice.aspx(sage/s1/getPrice.aspx)
• Midterm 2;

Project

• Description;

Other Handouts/Slides and Example Files

Useful links

All Around Good Sites World Wide Web Consortium Wikipedia www.whatis.com Browser tips Webmonkey"s tutorial on e-commerce. Rex Swain’s HTTP viewer serversniff.net (sniff http and https headers) HTTP(s) request/response viewer	HTML Guides Complete HTML Reference (very good) Beginner"s guide to HTML An interactive HTML tutorial Another HTML tutorial Forms tutorial Web Design Guidelines HtmlGoodies.com(lots of tutorials) GIF or PNG?	CSS A good FAQ on CSS A great starting point (Dave Raggett) CSS reference table Stylesheet guide good tutorial Complete CSS guide good tutorial CSS 2.1 reference (good) Lists with CSS simple example Lists with CSS more complex example Replacing tables with CSS (from KeithBrown.co.uk) Visual Formatting Model (a must read from W3C) Centering with CSS Tutorial on using float
Fonts, Colors, and Typography Typography for the web. (A nice article about colors and fonts.) Tutorial on web typography (from web monkey) Font Face tutorial (from web diner) Font families Font resources (from WebsiteTips.com) Color chart (from web diner) Another color chart Web-Safe Color Dilemma (from Lynda Weinman) CSS3 Colors Adding an icon to your web page	JavaScript and DHTML JavaScript-kit.com Creating objects in JavaScript Firefix DOM reference JavaScript.Internet.com Beginning JavaScript tutorials Online JavaScript reference DOM reference IE filter reference Regular Expressions: tutorials and links Regular Expressions with JavaScript	XML/AJAX Resources XML Microsoft XML site (includes other links) Microsoft XMLDOM reference 15 Seconds.com: XML section. A good tutorial on DTDs (RPBourret.com). W3School's tutorial on DTDs. W3School's tutorial on schemas. zvon.org: XML portal Java based XML tutorials (excellent) XPath tutorial from Zvon XSLT tutorial from Zvon Microsoft XSLT Developer's Guide (include code samples) Microsoft's XML SDK. Choose: 'Data Access Services'->Microsoft XML 2.5 MSXsl Using XMLHTTP: Article and links. Using XMLHTTP: Web Anotator. Common XML problems/questions (from Perfect XML) AJAX