classroom asp.net tutorials

[CGreenMTU]

I'm wanting to develop a classroom asp.net tutorial, but don't want to make it too complicated for those who aren't programmers. I'm wanting to use asp.net & vb.net for the tutorial and do a connection to an access database (add, delete, updates possibly). I was wondering if anyone knew of any good tutorials online that may fill my need. I was also wondering if there are any sample access databases available online to download...

thanks

 

[Isadore]

CG: You could easily grab one of the asp.net texts out there and build a course from it. Most have wonderful examples and as you go through it (teaching yourself - sharpening your insights) you could easily extract examples (plenty of them). Do a Search here for asp.net texts -- this topic has come up on many occassions. My favorite is ASP.NET Unleased by Stephen Walther and another one loaded with examples of already built web sites is "Instant ASP.NET Applications" by Greg Buczek - indeed you could teach your class from this book alone, the two together and you'd have all you need.

I would recommend you build you own tutorials to prepare yourself for your lectures. Keep in mind too that one area you'll want to explore is the 'core' of asp.net, and that is the DataSets / DataViews -- they are very versatile. Also, the basic objects such as DataGrids, DropDownLists, Listboxes, etc... can be isolated and demonstrated individually. Many will share very similar binding code. I think you'll find the material more straight forward then you think -- the basics of ASP.NET is really logical and very easy to follow and understand.

I just posted a link to a site built entirely in NotePad using Access as the database -- the link to the site is:

http://frontpage.auburn.edu/icaae/index.aspx

I would be more than happy to share any of the code in this site -- just post back later with a page name (from the URL window).

 

[CGreenMTU]

thanks alot Isadore!
I think i'm going to develop a small application that will show for example: customer information relating to an order from drop down menus and textboxes. I also would like to do a tutorial on a log-in application (possibly to view customer information). I'd also like to include some Add/Update/Deletes in there as well...

I previously did a presentation of an overview of ASP.NET and it's foundations, and for a final project I would like to go through a tutorial with the class to show them how a basic ASP.NET application is developed.

 

[Isadore]

Green: sounds like a plan - yes, the more involved you get personally with the material the better you'll understand it and be able to share -- note the the second text I mentioned has examples of all that you have discussed. Good luck!

 

[CGreenMTU]

Thanks so much. i began programming with ASP.NET with VB.NET this past summer for a company I worked for and used quite a few of their asp.net books, but never bought my own. Is there any ASP.NET / ADO.NET books that you could recommend that would be a great all-around reference for designing in ASP.NET / VB.NET / ADO.NET ?? How about the ASP.NET Unleased you mentioned? I actually used the ASP.NET Instant Applications book with my job...

thanks

 

[Isadore]

CG: Unleased is excellent. There are a few others, many have posted here, try searching a few out -- I think there are 2 or 3 others highly recommended.