Author Steven Sanderson has seen the ASP.NET MVC Framework mature from the start, so his experience, combined with comprehensive coverage of all the new features, including those in the official MVC development toolkit, offers the clearest understanding of how this exciting new framework can improve your coding efficiency. With this book, youll gain invaluable up-to-date knowledge of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.
The ASP.NET MVC V2 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsofts ASP.NET web platform. It introduces a radically new high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.
In this book, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. Youll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, youll discover MVCs strengths and weaknesses for yourselfand put your best-learned theory into practice.
What youll learn
- Gain a solid architectural background to ASP.NET MVC V2, including MVC and REST concepts.
- Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework and take a detailed look at the official MVC development toolkit.
- See how it works with test-driven development in action.
- Capitalize on your existing knowledge quickly and easily through translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC.
- Learn about the latest security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0.
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want (or need) to start using the new ASP.NET MVC V2 Framework. Table of Contents
- Whats the Big Idea?
- Your First ASPNET MVC Application
- Prerequisites
- SportsStore: A Real Application
- SportsStore: Navigation and Shopping Cart
- SportsStore: Administration and Final Enhancements
- Overview of ASPNET MVC Projects
- URLs and Routing
- Controllers and Actions
- Controller Extensibility
- Views
- Models and Data Entry
- User Interface Techniques
- Ajax and Client Scripting
- Security and Vulnerability
- Deployment
- ASPNET Platform Features
- Upgrading and Combining ASPNET Technologies
Customer Reviews & Comments
Every now and then you read a software development book that absolutely takes your breath away. This is one of those books.
This is an outstanding book for the professional developer who is looking to become an expert on ASP.NET MVC, and who wants to seriously "raise their game" when it comes to software development in general. Steve Sanderson (the author) has a fantastic writing style that is easy to read, and which flows very naturally.
The first 212 pages of the book are mostly spent building two applications (a party invite application and a sports e-commerce store) literally starting with File-
