Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework
The ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 4.
In this third edition, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You’ll 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, you’ll discover MVC’s strengths and weaknesses for yourself—and put your best-learned theory into practice.
The book’s authors Steve Sanderson and Adam Freeman have both watched the growth of ASP.NET MVC since its first release. Steve is a well-known blogger on the MVC Framework and a member of the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team. Adam started designing and building web applications 15 years ago and has been responsible for some of the world’s largest and most ambitious projects. You can be sure you are in safe hands.
What you’ll learn
- Gain a solid architectural understanding of ASP.NET MVC 3, including basic MVC
- Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework
- See how MVC and test-driven development work in action
- Capitalize on your existing knowledge quickly and easily through comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC
- Learn about the latest security and deployment issues, including those related to IIS 7
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 3 Framework.
Table of Contents
Part 1
1. The Big Idea
2. Getting Ready
3. Your First MVC Application
4. The MVC Pattern
5. Essential Language Features
6. Essential Tools for MVC
7. SportsStore I – A Real Application
8. SportsStore II – Navigation & Cart
9. SportsStore III – Administration
Part 2
10. Overview of MVC projects
11. URLs, Routing & Areas
12. Controllers & Actions
13. Filters
14. Controller Extensibility
15. Views
16. Model Templates
17. Model Binding
18. Model Validation
19. Unobtrusive Ajax
20. jQuery
Part 3.
21. Security
22. Authentication & Authorization
23. Deployment
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Very disapointing,
I feel that this book has been rushed out to be the first MVC 3 book on the shelf. It is full of errors and not just typo’s. These include errors in the code it’s self! I have spent several hours wasted trying to work out why my code doesn’t work only to find out that the book it’s self is wrong!
The graphics included in the book don’t always represent the results of the texts (for example screenshots containing tests that you aren’t told about and even the down-loadable source code doesn’t include!).
The use of some code is even incorrect in some cases! These are only small things that I have seen so far (half way through the book) for example parameter orders incorrect in the tests that do pop up errors when they should but the errors will be slightly wrong causing more wasted time trying to work out what is wrong!
The only reason I am still plodding though on trying to learn from this book is because I have already purchased it, there are no alternatives and deadlines are looming.
I purchased the ALPHA of this book from Apress directly when it was available and have been sending errors via there site for months but NONE of the errors I submitted have been corrected in the final release and have heard nothing from Apress.
If you are trying to learn MVC I suggest finding another MVC 2 book that you know is good and then when you have a grasp of MVC 2 topping up your knowledge on the changes (Razor etc…) in MVC 3 from other sources (or maybe any other books that will be published shortly).
Having said all that if you don’t mind all the rushed error prone work and just want to get into MVC 3 right now (as at the time of writing this is the ONLY MVC 3 book out there) getting this book and spending the time to read and follow it (which isn’t easy) you will get there or at least to a place that you can ask the right questions to find the answers and understand other examples on the net.
EDIT:
I have had more problems where the book was not explaining what the code was trying to achieve and as the code was wrong several hours were lost trying to establish if it was me that was wrong or the book… A few examples of solution are:
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|Perfect book for the beginner and the advanced MVC developer,
This is the perfect book for the beginner and the advanced MVC developer. It is a one stop shop for learning the ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework.
It starts out with a nice little sample application that will get beginners up to speed fast. It then covers the MVC Pattern in detail and how it relates to Domain-Driven Development, Repositories, Dependency Injection, and Automated Testing.
Next the is a chapter on the C# features a good MVC developer needs in their tool belt, as well as the Razor syntax. This chapter does a good job of introducing the Razor view engine.
Then there is a chapter on the essential tools MVC developers should understand. This chapter covers Ninject, Unit Testing and Moq.
In the next 3 chapters the authors take you through building a real application. Everything is included from the views to the repository (using Entity Framework 4.1), to the database. They also include the unit tests. The application is a complete store front and an administration site.
The next part of the book includes details on individual features of the ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework. It includes chapters on URLs, Routing & Areas, Controllers & Actions, Filters, Controller Extensibility, Views, Model Templates, Model Binding, Model Validation, Unobtrusive Ajax, and jQuery.
The last part of the book has chapters on Security, Authentication & Authorization, Deployment.
I like that the authors show you how to take advantage of the tools available in Visual Studio 2010 to help get you as productive as possible.
This is a very well rounded book. It covers everything a .NET Architect and Developer needs to know to build real world applications.
The downloadable code is very well organized and appears usable. It is seperated into chapters and then into topics with in the chapters. It looks really nice, but most of it does not run so that is a ding to the book.
All in all I highly recommend this book for anyone moving into the ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework world.
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