Explore the introduction to ASP.NET by examining how dynamic, data-driven web applications operate on a two-way, event-driven client–server model, with browser requests and HTML markup responses.

Learn how to install Visual Studio by running the setup, following the installation wizard, choosing where to store it, and awaiting roughly 20 minutes for the installation to complete.

Create a new ASP.NET website in Visual Studio 2010, add a web form via Solution Explorer, and run without debugging to display Hello World in design view.

Create a dynamic website in ASP.NET by building a Hello World example, defining a message variable, and displaying it on the page.

Connect your application to a database by adding a data connection, selecting Microsoft SQL Server Database File, browsing to the database, testing the connection, and exploring the student table.

Bind a data grid to a student database in an ASP.NET web app by adding an app_data folder, configuring the student connection in web.config, and displaying all fields.

Learn how to build web forms with textbox, buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes in ASP.NET, post data to the server, and retrieve textbox values for server responses.

Learn to separate presentation and logic by using a separate core file, wire a button event to update a label, and run the example to see the change.

Create a data entry web form in ASP.NET web forms using a two-column table. Capture student details such as name, address, standard, and gender with standard and server controls.

Bind input values from text fields to labels via a post back on submit, demonstrating dynamic label updates for name, address, standard, and gender.

Explore data binding expressions to transfer input from text boxes to labels in ASP.NET, and understand how the page load events and the data binding method enable automatic data display.

Learn how to use variables in a basic ASP.NET page, convert two textbox inputs to integers, and perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with proper type casting.

Explore how loops work in ASP.NET with a button that generates iterations and a text area that displays each result.

Define and call functions on a student information form, assign values to labels and text boxes, and implement a clear function to reset fields, including parameterized functions and return types.

Create web controls and web user controls to define common features such as headers and links across pages. Changes to a user control propagate to all pages that inherit it.

Learn how to register and place a web user control in an ASP.NET page using drag-and-drop or explicit registration from solution explorer.

Learn to validate form input using asp.net validation controls. Implement required field validator and regular expression validator, set properties, error messages, and validation groups to ensure proper submission.

Learn to control validation display using the validation summary control, toggle show message box and show summary, set the validation group, and switch required field validators to dynamic display.

Explore how view state preserves page and control state across postbacks in ASP.NET. Learn about stateless pages, hidden inputs storing encrypted state, and how session resolves limitations.

Learn how to create and retrieve a session in ASP.NET to pass information between pages, using a unique key stored in a cookie and a redirect to display the data.