Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Microsoft 70-486: Plan an adaptive UI layout

Exam Objectives


Plan for running applications in browsers on multiple devices (screen resolution, CSS, HTML), plan for mobile web applications

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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Microsoft 70-486: Enhance application based on browser feature detection

Exam Objectives


Detect browser features and capabilities; create a web application that runs across multiple browsers and mobile devices; enhance application behavior and style by using vendor-specific extensions, for example, CSS

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Fun with Coordinates: A story about using JavaScript to do things the hard way.

Went to a training class this morning on using Google's MyMaps.  Interesting enough, though I don't see myself ever really using it.  For the uninitiated, this application lets you upload a spreadsheet of locations with a bunch of metadata, and you can manipulate the visualization.  Well, the map pointers are placed based on either an address or a lat and long.  The presenter noted that she wasn't sure if you could use UTM or State Planar Coordinate System coordinates.  Because I had pretty much exhausted my interest in playing with the MyMaps interface in about 10 minutes, I took it as a challenge to obtain and test a UTM data set.  I did a search for an available dataset but didn't find anything useful, however I had at my disposal a Google Sheets spreadsheet that had the Wyoming zip codes with latitudes and longitudes (basically a truncated version of this file). "So I'll just convert the ones I have, easy..." BWAHAHAHA ok, we'll get to what that was about.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Microsoft 70-486: Design and implement UI behavior

Exam Objectives


Implement client validation, use JavaScript and the DOM to control application behavior, extend objects by using prototypal inheritance, use AJAX to make partial page updates, implement the UI by using JQuery

Quick Overview of Training Materials


Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 2.2
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Chapters 3 (Data Annotation, 4 (Client Programming) and 6 (AJAX)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (WROX) - Chapters 6 (Data Annotation) and 8 (AJAX)


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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Microsoft 70-486: Apply the user interface design for a web application

Exam Objectives


Create and apply styles by using CSS, structure and lay out the user interface by using HTML, implement dynamic page content based on a design

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Microsoft 70-486: Implement a secure site with ASP.NET

Exam Objectives


Secure communication by applying SSL certificates; salt and hash passwords for storage; use HTML encoding to prevent cross-site scripting attacks (ANTI-XSS Library); implement deferred validation and handle unvalidated requests, for example, form, querystring, and URL; prevent SQL injection attacks by parameterizing queries; prevent cross-site request forgeries (XSRF)

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Hashing Passwords using ASP.NET's Crypto Class - MSDN Crypto Class 
Password management made easy in ASP.NET with the Crypto API
MSDN - Differences Between AntiXss.HtmlEncode and HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
owasp.org - ASP.NET Request Validation

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