ASP.NET MVC 5.x Online Training

• Student & Faculty Introduction
• Instructions about Zoom and DropBox access
• What is ASP.NET MVC
• Benefits of ASP.NET MVC
• History of ASP.NET MVC
• Understanding Model, View & Controller
• Creating a Simple MVC Application
• Understanding MVC Application Folder Structure
• Creating a Model class
• Creating a Controller with Action methods
• Understanding Action methods and different type of Result types
• Creating a Strongly-typed View with @model and accessing data using @Model
• Understanding Nuget Package Management System

• Understanding ASP.NET MVC Request LifeCycle
• Understanding MVC Routing System
• Creating a RoutingConfig.cs in App_Start folder
• Creating a Default route in RoutingConfig.cs file
• Creating Custom Routes with Custom URL Patterns
• Understanding Attribute Routing in MVC

• Understanding Views in MVC
• Getting friendly with Razor Syntax
• Using HTML Helper methods to generate HTML in View
• Creating Custom HTML Helper methods to generate custom HTML in View
• Using Layout.cshtml to maintain consistency across all the Views
• Creating Sections using @section in Views and Rendering them using @RenderSection in Layout.cshtml

• Data Passing from Controller to View using ViewBag
• Data Passing from Controller to View using ViewData
• Data Passing from Controller to View using TempData
• Data Passing from Controller to View using Model and ViewModel
• Understanding HttpGet and HttpPost attribute verbs for Action Methods
• Understanding Model Binding feature
• Benefits of Model Binding
• Accessing Form data in Controller using Model Binding
• Accessing Form data in Controller using Model Binding with ViewModel

• Understanding Form validation in MVC
• Server-Side validation using ModelState.IsValid
• using Validation attributes from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
• Downloading jQuery Validate and jQuery Unobtrusive files for Client-Side Validation
• Using ValidationMessageFor and ValidationSummary for generating Client-Side validation messages
• Creating Custom Validation attributes
• Doing Validation using class-level model validation

• Anonymous Methods
• Delegates and Lambda Expressions
• IEnumerable
• Extension methods
• Implicitly-typed local variables and Anonymous types
• LINQ Query operators
• LINQ keywords and Syntax

• Understanding what is an ORM
• Introduction To ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Benefits of ADO.NET Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Entity Framework version history
• Understanding Different approaches of EF
• Getting started with EF Code-First approach
• Downloading and Installing EF using Nuget Package Manager Console
• Writing Data access code using EF

• Understanding the need of Database Initializer's
• Using Database.SetInitializer () method
• Understanding types of Initializer's
• CreateDatabaseIfNotExists
• DropCreateDatabaseAlways
• DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges
• Creating Custom Initializer using Built-in Initializer or IDatabaseInitializer Interface
• Seeding the Database
• Using Data Annotation attributes for Data Modeling
• Using Data Annotation attributes for Validation
• Using EF Fluent API for Data Modeling
• Overriding OnModelCreating method with DbModelBuilder as parameter
• Creating 1-to-Many relationship using Annotations and Fluent API
• Creating Many-to-Many relationship using Annotations and Fluent API

• Understanding the need of EF Code-First Migration
• Using Enable-Migration command to enable migrations
• Using Add-Migration to add a new migration file
• Using Update-Database to apply migration files to the Database
• Seeding the Database
• Using Database-First approach to generate Model classes
• Using Partial Model classes with MetadataType for validation

• Understanding Repository & Unit Of Work pattern, DI & IoC
• Creating Repository Layer using Interfaces and Concrete classes
• Inverting the dependencies using Inversion of Control (Unity) at RunTime
• Injecting dependencies using Dependency Injection (Constructor Injection)
• Using Unit Of Work pattern to commit to the database

• Creating User and Role Model classes
• Creating Many-to-Many relationship between Users and Roles
• Creating Register method
• Hashing the Password for Security Reasons

• Creating Login and Logout Methods
• Using Forms Authentication
• Implementing custom Principal
• Securing the Authentication Ticket and Cookies

• Understanding HTTP Basics
• ASP.NET WebAPI Basics
• Creating ASP.NET WebAPI 2 project
• JSON basics
• Creating action methods using IHttpActionResult
• Serialization problems with Entity Framework
• Writing CRUD operation methods
• Using PostMan to Test the API's

• Consuming JSON data using jQuery DataTable
• Using Bootstrap Model popup for CRUD operations
• Using AJAX calls for CRUD operations
• Securing the API Controller

We will be creating a Content Management System(CMS) using ASP.NET MVC, EF, and many other technologies. All the topics that are to be covered in project work are listed below:

• Creating a Multi-Layered Application
• Creating separate projects for Data, Model, ViewModel, Web and Unit Test
• Managing package dependencies using Nuget
• Referencing projects to other projects
• Using Models and ViewModels
• Using EF Fluent-API for Data Modeling
• Storing Database connectionString in startup project .i.e Web project
• Using EF Code-First Migration
• Generating Repository interfaces and concrete class
• Creating interface & concrete class for Unit Of Work
• Inverting the dependency using Ioc(Unity) and injecting using DI
• Understanding Lazy & Eager loading in EF
• Disabling Lazy loading and ProxyCreation
• Using Include method to fetch related data using JOIN Sql Query via Entity Framework
• User and Role Management
• CMS features: Pages, Sidebars, Menu
• Using RichTextEditor for Pages,Sidebars
• Creating Admin area
• Using Bootstrap to style the Layout file
• Using LINQ with EF
• Calling Stored Procedure with EF
• Securing MVC application: Antiforgery tokens
• Applying Caching within MVC application for performance
• Creating Partial views
• Displaying notifications using TempData and Bootstrap alerts
• Creating Custom routes with Custom URL patterns
• Using attribute routing
• Using Client-Side validation using jQuery validate and Unobtrusive JS files
• Using partial views to display Navigation and Sidebar area in Layout file
• Restricting permissions & functionality to admin role users only using Authroize attribute
• and so on..