DiscountAsp is the best hosting company that I have found for .NET applications. They provide many SQL tools that make it easy to remotely manage your sql database directly from your computer that other hosting companies like GoDaddy do not. Here are the exact steps that you need to take to use DiscountASP to connect a web site to a SQL Database
- Get domain name from GoDaddy for $8/year
- Get hosting account with DiscountASP for $10 per month
- In Discountasp - select $10 monthly addon for SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008
- On GoDaddy in domain manager, update nameservers to point to discountasp. This points your domain name to hosting address on discountasp.net
- Use SQL Server 2005 or 2008 remote connect to discountasp server. Create your database and tables on discount asp.
- Use Visual Web Developer to create your application and use configure sqldatasource to point to database on DiscountASP
- Visual Web Developer - Use "Website/Copy website" in toolbar to copy your application to ftp location on discount asp - usually ftp.yourwebsite.com
- (Hint: When using DiscountASP to build a portfolio of web sites to demonstrate your skills, you can use starter kits to jump-start your progress.)
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Eight Free Video Tutorials on Internet Information Services (IIS) presented by Joe Stagner.
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| 1. Developing and Deploying In a Shared Hosting |
| Key Concepts:
This video introduces developing ASP.NET applications in a shared hosting environment by demonstrating "Live Editing" and "Remote Publication" features in Visual Web Developer 2008.
09 March 2009 46 minutes |
| 2. Working with IIS7 Deligated Admin |
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This video introduces the exciting new remote management functionality built for the IIS7 manager and illustrates both Server and Client configuration as well as the two different authorization options.
09 March 2009 22 minutes |
| 3. Feature Specific Delegated Management |
| Key Concepts:
This video demonstrates how to work with remotely administering SPECFIC web site features with IIS7 remote / delegated administration.
09 March 2009 9 minutes |
| 4. Troubleshooting Production ASP.NET Apps |
| Key Concepts:
This video provides you with a quick inventory of tools to troubleshoot your production ASP.NET applications.
09 March 2009 30 minutes |
| 5. Creating a Site with IIS7 Manager |
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This video demonstrates the provisioning process for new web sites with IIS7.
09 March 2009 8 minutes |
| 6. Installing FTP7 |
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FTP7 is new and powerful. This video shows you how to get it up and running!
09 March 2009 8 minutes |
| 7. Bit Rate Throttling |
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This video will teach how to install and configure a great new IIS7 feature – Bit Rate Throttling. With BRT you can serve media files or big downloads without ruining your sites UI performance.
09 March 2009 7 minutes |
| 8. IIS7 Playlists |
| Key Concepts:
If you're hosting media files on your web site, play lists will let you define sequences for your media and optionally prevent users from skipping parts of the content (like ads or disclaimers).
10 March 2009 9 minutes |
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This is a 5-part webcast series on game programming Sudoko using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) presented by Lucas Magder.
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| 1. Introduction |
| Key Concepts:
In Part 1 of this webcast series, you have the opportunity to put together the basic user interface design for the game and learn the fundamentals of Windows Presentation Foundation.
May 2, 2006 60 minutes |
| 2. Creating Classes, Bind User Interface, Custom Controls |
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In Part 2 of this webcast series, you get to practice creating the Sudoku game classes and binding the user interface to the game logic through a custom control.
May 4, 2006 60 minutes |
| 3. Enhancing User Interface |
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In Part 3 of this webcast series, you learn how to make your Sudoku game look cool by adding features such as animation, skinning, and user interface effects.
May 8, 2006 60 minutes |
| 4. Complex Custom Controls and Problem-Solving Algorithms |
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In Part 4 of this webcast series, you get experience with creating more complex custom controls for your Sudoku game. We also show you how to build a security-conscious plug-in system to implement various Sudoku-solving algorithms.
May 10, 2006 60 minutes |
| 5. Comparing AIs |
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In Part 5 of this webcast series, you learn how to build an interface for your Sudoku game to load and benchmark multiple AIs, as well as a custom graphing component that compares the AIs.
May 12, 2006 60 minutes |
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 Fritz Onion is a co-founder of Pluralsight. He focuses on Web development using Microsoft ASP.NET. He is the author of the book "Essential ASP.NET," available in both Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET editions.
Although many of the topics in this series are similar to Bill Steele's ASP Soup to Nuts Series, Fritz puts a different spin on them, and I have learned a lot by watching both series.
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| 1. Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Slides Lab used as Demo Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. Differences between ASP.NET 2.0 and Microsoft ASP.NET 1.1.
B. Overview for the rest of the lectures
C. Master pages
D. Themes
E. Membership
F. Profile
G. Declarative data binding
August 4, 2005 - 68 minutes |
| 2. Architecture Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. Fundamental architecture of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0.
B. Page compilation
C. Assembly loading
D. Code behind
E. Shadow copying
F. Changes in the compilation model from Microsoft ASP.NET 1.1, primarily the use of partial classes in .aspx parsing.
August 11, 2005 - 64 minutes |
| 3. Master Pages, Themes, and Skins Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. Two significant user interface features of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0: master pages and themes
B. Master pages give you a flexible way of defining templates for your site
C. Master pages make it easy for you to change the look and feel of entire sets of pages from a single source.
D. Themes provide a way to consolidate user interface features like style sheets, images and control styles in a single location, and simplify the process of "skinning", or changing the appearance of all elements of a site.
August 18, 2005 - 63 Minutes |
| 4. New Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. New controls in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
B. Navigation controls (SiteMapPath, Menu, TreeView)
C. Wizard control
D. MultiView control
August 25, 2005 - 56 minutes |
| 5. Introduction to DataBinding Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. New declarative data binding model
B. How to bind data to controls using the new data source controls
C. SqlDataSource object
D. Comparison of the way the new declarative model works with an analogous programmatic approach.
E. Other new data-related features in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0.
Sept 1, 2005 - 60 Minutes |
| 6. Client State Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. New ways to handle state management in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
B. Comparison of URL mangling to the practice of using cookies for storing session keys
C. New cross-page posting feature
D. How to use the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Profile service as a generic data-backed per-client store.
September 08, 2005 - 59 Minutes |
| 7. Membership Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. New membership features of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
B. How to implement cookie-based authentication for sites using the new security controls and the site administration tool
C. How this authentication works
September 15, 2005 - 46 minutes |
| 8. Webparts Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. Portal pages
B. Web Parts
C. Basic steps for setting up a customizable site using new Web Part controls, including WebPartManager, WebPartZone, CatalogZone, and EditorZone.
October 6, 2005 - 57 minutes |
| 9. Deployment Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. How ASP.NET 2.0 performs its parsing and compilation,
B. Deployment options ranging from complete source deployment to binary-only deployment.
October 13, 2005 - 57 minutes |
| 10. Validation Slides Lab used as Demo Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. New features in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 specific to the validation controls.
B. Validation groups.
October 20, 2005 - 50 minutes |
| 11. Advanced DataBinding Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. Hierarchical data binding
B. ObjectDataSource object
C. Multi-layered architectures with declarative binding
D. Two-way binding
October 27, 2005 - 58 minutes |
| 12. Resources and Internationalization Slides Lab used as Demo Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. Internationalization of Web applications.
B. In addition to the App_Code directory, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 defines two new directories designed to store resources for compilation; App_LocalResources and App_GlobalResources
C. Declarative and programmatic techniques
November 3, 2005 - 53 minutes |
| 13. Diagnostics Slides Demos Lab |
| Key Concepts:
A. How Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 simplifies the way tracing works, and makes it much easier to redirect trace output to alternate sources.
B. New diagnostic features, including performance counters and the new Web events
November 10, 2005 - 51 minutes |
| 14. Client-Side Features of ASP.NET 2.0 Slides Demos Lab |
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A. New client callback feature built into Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, along with other features that make it easier to integrate client-side script into your rendered pages.
B. Add sophisticated client-side JavaScript that retrieves data from the server without performing a POST-back request.
C. Both the TreeView and GridView controls have built-in support for dynamic data population with client callbacks.
D. Dow to build your own callbacks.
November 17, 2005 - 61 minutes |
| 15. Caching Slides Lab used as Demo Lab |
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A. ASP.NET 2.0 has a complete implementation of SQL cache invalidation.
B. Build your own cache dependencies with ease.
C. This webcast covers SQL cache invalidation in both Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and explores new cache management features and the new substitution control.
December 8, 2005 - 53 minutes |
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I just finished watching Bill Steele of Microsoft explain ASP.NET in his 26 hour Soup To Nuts Video series. Bill Steele has an excellent grasp of ASP.NET and provides a streamlined approach. He takes you from learning how to install the free Express Versions of the software to building a full-blown auction site. This is the best series I have watched. Bill has a great sense of humor and is very interesting character, as he is also an airplane pilot.
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Here is an outline of the ASP.NET Soup to Nuts series:
| 1. HTML Basics |
| Key Concepts:
A. Concepts behind the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
B. A brief history of HTML, its current status, and its plausible future scenarios.
Duration: 60 minutes |
2. Web Server Basics
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| Key Concepts:
A. Web Server
B. Web Application
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 3. ASP.NET Basics |
Key Concepts:
A. Microsoft.NET Framework
B. What is ASP.NET?
C. How is ASP.NET managed by the .NET Framework?
D. Functionality of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and the .NET Framework.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 4. Developing your first ASP.NET Web Site |
Key Concepts:
A. Creating a simple Web site.
B. How to build a Web site without using any additional "tools"
C. Options for configuring this demonstration Web site.
D. How does ASP.NET 2.0 handle the application during various stages of its execution?
Duration: 60 minutes |
5. Introducing Visual Web Developer Express Environment
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Key Concepts:
A. Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
B. Work with the Web site that was created in the previous webcast.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 6. Adding Data to our site |
| Key Concepts:
A. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
B. controls that can request data from the database and store data in it.
C. Customize data access controls
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 7. Adding Pizzazz to your web site |
Key Concepts:
A. Concepts of layout and style
B. Master pages
C. Themes
D. Basics of site navigation
E. Navigation controls
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 8. Web Site Security |
| Key Concepts:
A. A hacker's point of view
B. Examine several types of hacks to show vulnerabilities
Duration: 60 minutes |
9. Server Controls
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| Key Concepts:
A. The standard server controls to advanced controls like data controls, navigation controls, and logon controls.
B. Concept of writing your own controls.
Duration: 60 minutes |
10. Extending ASP.NET
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| Key Concepts:
A. Extend server controls to add functionality by using object oriented programming.
B. Introduction to the object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts of inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation in the context of extending the existing functionality of several server controls.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 11. User Settings |
| Key Concepts:
A. Personalization.
B. Storing user information and individual user preferences.
C. Intro to the various storage mechanisms in the ASP.NET framework, such as cookies, ViewState, and profile management features.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 12. Understanding Application State |
| Key Concepts:
A. Application state stores data for application
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 13. Managing Your ASP.NET Application |
| Key Concepts:
A. Hierarchical configuration infrastructure that enables extensible configuration data to be defined and used throughout an application, site, and/or machine.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 14. Monitoring Your Application |
Key Concepts:
A. Health Monitoring during coding, after deployment, and when problems occur.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 15. Web Part Controls |
| Key Concepts:
A. Web parts
B. Personalization services
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 16. Caching |
| Key Concepts:
A. Caching keeps frequently accessed or expensive data in memory.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 17. Internationalization |
| Key Concepts:
A. Localization
B. Globalization
C. Resource files
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 18. Tips & Tricks |
| Key Concepts:
A. Cross Page Posting,
B. Validation Groups,
C. the Focus API,
D. No Compile Pages,
E. Client-Script Features
F. Securing Non-ASP.NET Content.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 19. Auction Site Design |
| Key Concepts:
A. Apply the three-tier architecture pattern to the auction site application and lay out the basic framework for the subsequent auction site webcasts.
B. Requirements,
C. Timeline
D. Application development life cycle.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 20. Auction Site Database |
Key Concepts:
A. Auction site application from a database perspective.
B. Develop a database design,
C. Implement the design,
D. Tune the database.
E. Developing stored procedures to support the auction site
F. Configuring the auction site application so it can securely connect to the database by limiting the access to just the required privileges.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 21. Auction Site Template |
| Key Concepts:
A. The visual design of the auction site
B. Develop the layout,
C. The Web parts that define the general areas of the site
D. The themes to give the auction site pizzazz.
E. Basic user interface by defining the auction item Web page and the auction item list page.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 22. Auction Site Management |
| Key Concepts:
A. All Web sites need some form of management.
B. Management options for auction site
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 23. Data Tier Logic |
| Key Concepts:
A. The data access layer
B. Theory behind abstracting the data access from the data storage mechanism.
C. Transactions and the unique requirements that a multi-user application imposes on the database.
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 24. Auction Site Business Layer |
| Key Concepts:
A. Business objects and business logic required to implement the auction Web site.
B. Reasons for separating the code into distinct objects
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 25. Auction Site Page Interaction |
| Key Concepts:
A. Communication and flow between pages
B. Web site Security
Duration: 60 minutes |
| 26. Auction Site Finishing Touches |
| Key Concepts:
A. Deployment of Auction website
B. GUI Graphics
Duration: 60 minutes |
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Microsoft has an excellent webcast series on www.msdn.com that is called "Exploring Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0" In this series, they show you how to take advantage of the new features included in the ASP.NET 2.0:
The webcasts show how to accelerate web development with new controls (data access, security, and web parts).
The series also teaches how to use membership and personalization to build personalized web sites.
It shows how to extend and customize ASP.NET for your enterprise using the new provider model.
Use new caching and client-side postbacks to create better performing web sites.
Make deployment easier with the new compilation model.
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