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Well, we've reached the end of the course and I just want to give you a little course wrap-up and kind of tell you where we went and then where you can go next. What I was attempting to do in this course is to bring you the ASP.NET basics that I see most people get confused about and ASP.NET is a web application technology that Microsoft has put out there as it continues to grow and it's up near 30 percent of all the websites on the Internet, which is amazing when you consider that its biggest competition is open-source software and this, people have to pay for this stuff; so enough Microsoft advertising there. What I wanted to point out are those parts of this technology that tend to confuse people or that tend to prevent you from being able to make your website do what you want it to do. Now, web development entails a lot of different things and it forces us to wear a lot of different hats. You have to be a programmer, C#, a Visual Basic, a JavaScript, on and on and on. You need to be somewhat of a graphic designer. You need to know HTML. You need to know XML. It just goes on and on and on and so what I've tried to do is concentrate here on the things that you need for ASP.NET. Now, keep in mind we didn't get into ADO.NET for connecting the databases and all that sort of thing so lots of learning opportunities here, OK? Also I introduced you to the Visual Web Developer, which in reality is called the Visual Studio Express in some locations but this is a really neat tool. It is free. You're not going to see a whole lot of limitations here. There are some but by the time you get there you should be in a place where you can get the full Visual Studio version. But we'll introduce you to that. Spent some time on validation controls simply because web security is hot right now. You want to validate anything that you ask users for; any input that comes from users you want to check it to make sure they gave you somewhat what you were asking for. You want to make sure that there's not an injection attack being attempted, a lot of things. I gave you a good introduction to the validation controls. Build on this. Continue to drop these things, work them together on one particular control. Go out there and read some about these and learn more about validation controls. A lot of power here with very little code. State management is another thing that tends to confuse people, especially and I don't know why and for the way Microsoft tends to present this, it is very seldom presented in a way that's easy to understand where one part stops and the other one begins. And I spent quite a few videos on that here in this course and I hope that I've helped clear some of that up and I hope especially that it'll help you understand why you want to choose different versions of state management. And when it fits for you particular situation. Database access, I showed you how to drop a grid view on. We talked early on about how to set up a SQL Express, how to set up the Management Tools because inside the Visual Web Developer you can access the databases that are out there but you can't create databases and so you will need that SQL Server Management Studio Administrative Tool if you want to create your own databases on your development server so then I ended up the course somewhere down there near the end by talking about security and I gave you a real good, very basic example on forms authentication because this is what most people end up having to resort to whenever they want to protect certain pages on the web and acquire a logon, a successful logon to get to that data and I gave you a very, very basic example and again, forms authentication, there's a lot of different ways to do this; using cookies, without cookies, putting all those pages in their own separate folder, using location tags and Web.Config, authenticating to a SQL database by writing ADO.NET code. There's a lot of different ways to go but I gave you a very simple example so that if you find yourself in this situation and needing to get something up and secure and running quickly, this will take care of that for you. That's pretty much the course. Thanks for coming. I hope you've picked up some things that you can use and I would strongly recommend that you go out to Microsoft.com and do some searches for ASP.NET, get out there in MSDN and in TechNet and I would also refer you to some excellent, excellent websites out there. Just go to Google and type ASP.NET and of course all the books on .Amazon and the bookstores and so forth. So anyway, that's our course for ASP.NET. Best of luck with it; look forward to hearing from you guys.