CS 295N, Web Development 1: ASP.NET

Course Outline

This is the 2019 version of the course outline and needs to be update for 2020

Syllabus
Useful Links
Course Materials on GitHub

1. Intro to MVC

• Lecture Notes
  • Intro to MVC
• Reading
• Skim "Core MVC in Context"—Freeman, Ch. 1
• Read Your First MVC Application—Freeman, Ch. 2
• Overview of ASP.NET Core MVC—Microsoft Tutorial
  
• Example
  • Book Info—Initial branch
    
• Lab Assignment
  • Lab 1A Instructions—Ch. 2 Exercise and Skeletal Community Web Site
    
  • Lab 1B Instructions—Ch. 2 Exercise and Skeletal Fan Web Site
    

2. Creating a Domain Model

• Lecture Notes
  • None
    
• Reading
• "The MVC Pattern, Projects, and conventions"—Freeman, Ch. 3
• Class Diagrams—Wikipedia
• Difference between composition and Aggregation—C# Corner, Phil Curnow
• Example
  • Book Info—DomainModel branch
    
• Lab Assignment
  • Lab 2A Instructions—Domain model diagram, model code, and contact page for the Community Web Site
    
  • Lab 2B Instructions—Domain model diagram, model code, and stories page for the Fan Web Site

3. Advanced C# Features Used in MVC

• Lecture Notes
  • Review of MVC Concepts
  • C# Features for MVC (including lambdas)
• Reading
• "Essential C# Features"—Freeman, Ch. 4
  
• Example
  • Book Info—Lambda+ComplexModel branch
    
• Lab Assignment
  • Lab 3A Instructions—Lambda expressions + more controllers and views for the Community Web Site
    
  • Lab 3B Instructions—Lambda expressions + more controllers and views for the Fan Web Site

4. Razor Views and Tag Helpers

• Lecture Notes
• Layouts and VeiwData
• Tag Helpers
  
• Reading
• "Working with Razor"—Freeman, Ch. 5
  
• Example
  • Book Info—Layouts branch
    
• Lab Assignment
• Lab 4A Instructions—Layouts, ViewData, and Tag Helpers for the Community Web Site
  
• Lab 4B Instructions—Layouts, ViewData, and Tag Helpers for the Fan Web Site

5. Deploying to a Server

• Lecture Notes
• Publishing a Web App to a Windows Hosting Service—Bird's Bits blog
  
• Registering a Domain Name—Bird's Bits blog
• Reading
• Web Server Implementations in ASP.NET Core—Microsoft Article
• Versions of .NET Core Supported on SmarterASP.NET
  
• Example
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• Lab Assignment
• Lab 5 Instructions—Publishing to a Windows IIS Hosting Service
• Term Project Requirements—This is the week to submit a proposal for a term project
  

6. More on Controllers

• Lecture Notes
• More on Controllers
• Reading
• "Controllers and Actions"—Freeman, Ch. 17
  
• Example
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• Lab Assignment
• Lab 6 Instructions—Debugging and more controller actions for the Community Web Site
  (There are two versions of the debugging exercise.)
  

7. Unit Testing and the Repository Pattern

• Lecture Notes
• Repositories and Unit Testing
  
• Repositories and Dependency Injection
• Reading
• Read "Unit Testing MVC Applications"—Freeman, Ch. 7 (through page 185)
• Skim "Dependency Injection"—Freeman, Ch. 18
• Unit test controller logic in ASP.NET Core—Microsoft Tutorial
• Dependency injection into controllers in ASP.NET Core—Microsoft Tutorial
• xUnit.net—Project web site
  
• Example
  • Book Info—UnitTests branch
  • Dependency Injection Example—DotNetFiddle
    
• Lab Assignment
• Lab 7A Instructions—Ch. 7 Exercise, Message repositories and unit tests for the Community Web Site
  
• Lab 7B Instructions—Ch. 7 Exercise, Story repositories and unit tests for the Fan Web Site

8. Entity Framework and Databases

• Lecture Notes
• Entity Framework and Database
  
• More EF, LINQ and Publishing to Azure—Includes seed data, we skipped the Azure part in 2019
  
• Reading
• Read "SportsStore: A Real Application"—Freeman, Ch. 8 (through page 218, on seed data)
• Get started with EF Core in an ASP.NET MVC web app—Microsoft Tutorial
• Publishing an ASP.NET Core Web App to a Windows Hosting Service—Bird's Bits blog, focus on the database aspects
• Using the Repository Pattern with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework—Code Guru tutorial, 2014
• Work with SQL in ASP.NET Core—Microsoft Tutorial on SQL Server Express LocalDB and Entity Framework
  
• Example
  • Book Info—AddEF branch
• Lab Assignment
• Lab 8 Instructions—Ch. 8 Exercise, add EF, DbContext, and refactor the real repository for both groups
  

9. LINQ Queries and Validation

More needs to be added