Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework

This Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework book is extremely well written, organised and full of reusable code relevant to project problems and requirements. Although this is a professional book and Apress recommends to read the beginning and pro ASP.NET 3.5, anyone with a basic understanding of MVC and a bit of classic ASP should be able to sail through this book.

Sanderson manages to cook up a feast from the acryonm soup. MVC looks to be THE big thing in the Microsoft development world. Sanderson writes with product experience (which is very rare in these early days of MVC) and the fact that it is his first book show he is not writing to order - he really knows his stuff and cares about communicating it. His blog and the online resources back this up.

He understands the pressure from clients to deliver commercial websites which are maintainable, accessible and using all the latest best practices, and yet within competitive timescales, which, as he points out, becomes more and more difficult by the day as Webforms shows its age against the ever evolving needs of modern development. In particular, he laments the prevalence of "demoware", which is so common when dealing with tutorials on ASP.NET on the web, where we are continually sold the idea that you can create a site of commercially acceptable quality by pointing and clicking your way through a few wizards, and then us poor developers are measured against such timescales and expectations (violins please).

Product Description

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 could improve your coding efficiency-and you'll gain invaluable up-to-date awareness of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.

The ASP.NET MVC Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's 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.

An integral benefit of this book is that the core Model-View-Controller architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but 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# 3.0 language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you can discover MVCs 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, including Model-View-Controller and REST concepts.
Explore the ASP.NET MVC framework with detailed coverage of all aspects of the framework and 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 is this book 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 framework.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.