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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, you’ll gain invaluable up-to-date knowledge of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.

The ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework introduces a radical 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. You’ll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with 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.

What you’ll learn

Gain a solid architectural background to ASP.NET MVC 2, 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 ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework.

What’s the Big Idea?
Your First ASP.NET MVC Application
Prerequisites
SportsStore: A Real Application
SportsStore: Navigation and Shopping Cart
SportsStore: Administration and Final Enhancements
Overview of ASP.NET 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
ASP.NET Platform Features
Upgrading and Combining ASP.NET Technologies

About the Author

After a childhood spent at the computer, Steven Sanderson started web development in 1996, first using Perl and later adopting PHP. His last five years of professional experience have focused on ASP.NET, learning what works and what works better, and experiencing a developer's life everywhere from an investment bank to a five-person Internet startup. Steven has led Red Gate's web development team, and spends his free time blogging and keeping up to speed with the latest technology developments. He's followed the ASP.NET MVC framework since its inception and frequently participates in online discussions with its core developers at Microsoft.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Outstanding introduction to MVC and .net best practices 5 Jun 2011

By L. D. Jones

Format:Paperback

Not only will this book hold your hand fully to understand the Asp.net MVC 2 framework, but with it it will also detail how to introduce a whole host of best practices and preferred development methodologies. It'll open your eyes to DI, MOQ, TDD and a whole lot more. In creating the SportsStore application you'll not only be guided every step of the way (personally I *MUCH prefer* the learn-by-example approach that this book takes) but end up with a working application as a result.
Yes, this is a hefty book and yes its pretty complex - but then again there is a LOT of complex stuff to cover.

If you have an understanding of asp.net web forms and want to venture into the world of MVC, this really is a perfect starting point. Highly recommended.

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A Good Book, but let down by conversion process 27 Jan 2011

By AndyO

Format:Kindle Edition

This was my first Kindle purchase.

The content of the book is good. It is informative, and well written. It certainly has me itching to rewrite the codebase I have the "pleasure" of maintaining!

However the Kindle Edition is let down by poor formatting of code samples. In every code sample I have encountered so far the first character on each line is truncated, and many code samples have page breaks in weird places, leaving half the screen blank.

As a first introduction to Kindle Books this is not as encouraging as it could have been. The preview of the first edition of this book that I read before buying this one did not have these 'schoolboy' formatting errors. For only �3.58 less than the paper edition I have to say I feel rather short changed.

On the plus side, I do have a searchable copy of the book, and I can read it one-handed without it breaking my wrist!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Easy to read and updated since the first edition 10 Aug 2010

By Huw Jeffries

I enjoyed the first edition of this book a year or two ago. I was hesitant about buying the second edition because I thought it would duplicate a lot of material. In fact it has been updated to cover all the new topics that appear in MVC2.

This book is easy to read and covers many practical real-world problems.