A Gentle Introduction To ASP.NET For Beginners

A Gentle Introduction To ASP.NET For Beginners free download

A First Step to Creating Dynamic Websites Using Web Forms , MVC , Razor Pages , Blazor , AI and more

There are a number of  flavors of ASP.NET,  Web Forms (Web Sites and Web Applications),  Model-View-Controller (MVC) , Razor Pages and the newest one Blazor. This course is aimed at anyone who wants to create dynamic websites using all these models , with ASP.NET Web Forms as the starting point.

ASP.NET is the Microsoft platform for developing Web Applications. Using ASP.NET you can create e-commerce sites, data driven portals and just about anything else you can find on the internet. Best of all, you don't need to paste together a jumble of HTML and JavaScript code. Instead you can create full scale web apps by leveraging your knowledge of C# coding and a design tool like Visual Studio.

In recent years Microsoft has added MVC (Model View Controller) and Razor pages which offer different ways to build dynamic web pages. To some , MVC and Razor pages are cleaner and more suited to the web. To others , it's a whole lot of extra effort with no clear payoff. Either way, it's good to have a strong knowledge of all of these web application programming models before moving onto the most future forward choice   Blazor.

We cover all these models at a beginners level and offer a multitude of practical applications.

Our focus will be working with Visual Studio on WINDOWS machines .  All coding examples are fully compatible with the LATEST Visual Studio Edition (As of 2024 Visual Studio Community 2022) for WINDOWS .

Major Course Updates:

Feb 2020 -Sept 2021
Three new sections ( 50+ new lectures ) which focus on transitioning from Web Forms to MVC and then Core Razor Pages

Sept 2021- Dec 2024 
Three new sections on Blazor ... including the latest on .NET 8 and .NET 9 (110+ new lectures  and more to come!)
... Think of this as a Course Within a Course all for one price

May 2025-
New Lectures on a variety of AI topics including :

• Integrating the OpenAI API within Blazor Applications

• Using Open Source Tools to Run Large Language Models in Blazor

• Performing AI Image Analysis and connecting the results to a Database

• Performing AI Video Analysis on various videos files sources including via Webcam

• Using AI (Whisper model) to perform Audio to Text Transcription and Translation and Text to Speech (Audio) generation

• Performing Web Scraping and AI Analysis and connecting the results to a Database

• Implementing  the .NET Smart Components - AI powered UI Controls
  
  

• 52+ Hours of Videos 

• 950 + downloadable demos

  • Sample applications specifically for the current lectures

  • PLUS hundreds of supplementary demos and exercise solutions

  • ... and more added monthly

Here's how I will help you to succeed:

o    Each lecture starts with a list of objectives/speaking notes

o    Every example covered in the lecture is available for download in the resources section including the objectives/speaking notes

o    Almost every lecture has a set of Practice problems with full solutions provided

o    My style of writing and teaching follows the KISS principle : Keep It Super Simple.   I try to stay away from fancy computer terminology and try to teach like am speaking to a brand new user with little to no previous knowledge on the subject matter and  I am always available for help replying most times within a day.

And finally please do not judge a book by it's cover  don't judge the course by the title or this small description section, if you want to know exactly all the topics covered please go to:

COURSE CONTENT
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Lectures  (press the down arrow)  This will open up literally thousands of lines of very detailed lecture descriptions leaving no doubt what is and what is not covered.