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ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed |  | Author: Stephen Walther
Publisher: Sams
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Pages: 744
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ISBN: 0672329980
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7882
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Publication Date: July 24, 2009
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In this book, world-renowned ASP.NET expert and member of the Microsoft ASP.NET team Stephen Walther shows experienced developers how to use Microsoft’s new ASP.NET MVC Framework to build web applications that are more powerful, flexible, testable, manageable, scalable, and extensible. Writing for professional programmers, Walther explains the crucial concepts that make the Model-View-Controller (MVC) development paradigm work so well and shows exactly how to apply them with the ASP.NET MVC Framework. From controllers and actions to views and models, Walther demonstrates how to apply each ASP.NET MVC Framework feature in real-world projects. In Part II, you’ll walk step-by-step through building a full-fledged ASP.NET MVC blog application that implements capabilities ranging from data access to validation. Through this case study, you’ll learn how to build ASP.NET MVC applications using test-driven development processes that enable rapid feedback, greater productivity, and better quality. Throughout, Walther presents extensive code examples, reflecting his unsurpassed experience as an ASP.NET instructor, a leading commercial developer, and now as a member of Microsoft’s ASP.NET development team. Understand how to: - Build enterprise-scale web applications far more rapidly and effectively
- Develop web applications that are easier to maintain and extend over time
- Gain unprecedented control over the appearance of your website or application
- Expose intuitive URLs that are friendlier to search engines and users alike
- Create ASP.NET MVC models that contain all your application’s business, validation, and data access logic
- Make the most of HTML helpers, model binders, action filters, routing, and authentication
- Efficiently deploy your ASP.NET MVC applications
- Use the lightweight JQuery JavaScript library to easily find and manipulate HTML elements
- Create ASP.NET MVC applications using unit test and mock object framework
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 A decent introduction May 22, 2010
Alexander Glass
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having been out of the ASP.NET loop for a while, this book introduced some new interesting concepts like LINQ, Test driven development, ORM, Entity Framework and of course MVC. That said, the book had numerous problems which really made it a chore to read past the 3rd chapter. The author for whatever reason decided to include both C# and VB code for all examples. This was incredibly annoying to have to scroll past all the VB examples as I was reading the book. Second, as I was reading on the kindle for PC, the figures containing code are low res images that are hard to read. If you are going to include the figures as pictures, then at least have them color coded like they are in any modern IDE for improved readability. The book had dozens of typos and I even looked for a link to post submit errors to the publisher and there was none. I was expecting that one of the advantages to reading books on the Kindle was that fixing trivial errors would be quick and easy for the publisher. Another serious problem with this book is that it superficially goes over the details of numerous aspects of the framework leaving the reader to come up with their own exercises on how to test the features. We have to wait until CHAPTER 17 until we get an example to work our way through. This example of a blog application was extraordinarily trivial, for example the author walks you through how to add items to a database but never bothers to add essential features like ***update*** or delete. Last but not least, the trivial walkthrough is missing steps like how to create the BlogEntry class (in case your wondering just go to the code downloads and figure it out for yourself). The book has great potential if the author is willing to work at it a bit more.
The title of this book should be called ASP.NET MVC FRAMEWORK: AN OVERVIEW
OK intro to ASP.NET MVC May 19, 2010
Rune Rindel Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
This is an OK ASP.NET MVC book. The structure of the book is that first Stephen describes various features of the ASP.NET MVC framework with shorter code examples and then in the later 6 chapters of the book we are building a larger blog application. I think the idea of first decribing the ASP.NET MVC features in shorter code examples and then later employing them in a larger app is good. It makes it easier to understand. All the way through the book Stephen is consistently testing his code with Visual Studio Unit Testing, so it's cool that you also get an introduction to this practice. When we are building the blog app in the second part of the book, Stephen is practicing Test Driven Development. Her start each chapter with some user stories (Use cases) which he wants to implement. The initial tests he then also generates from the user stories. So it's also cool to get an introduction to TDD. Stephen is an OK teacher. I think it's cool how he ties use cases, to tests to coding. The picture Stephen is painting is simple and clear. One drawback to the book is that Stephen is using some projects (RouteDebugger and MvcFakes) for test and debugging, which he don't explain the code of. It maybe falls outside the scope of the book, but I think I would have liked to understand how the codes of these projects worked. The book is a rather quick and light read. If you pick this book up to get introduced to the ASP.NET MVC framework you will be OK.
Great Book May 10, 2010
Ayp
Have you ever read the book "ASP .Net Unleashed" by the same author and did you like it ? If so, you will like
this book by the same author. The author explains MVC by simple examples using understandable sources. The topics covered includes : Controller, Views, Models, HTML Helpers, Action Filters, Model Binders (Default, Custom), Action Routers, View Engine etc. Also the author introduces concepts like Unit Testing, Mocking, Good software design principles like DRY, SOLID, Repository design pattern etc. There is a couple of chapter explaining jQuery and AJAX. I also like the appendix which explains the new language features in Visual C++ which are fundamental for MVC framework, and the tools like mocking tool etc.
After introducing the MVC concepts the author then moves to the second part where he is creating a Blog application from the scratch reinforcing the concepts we learnt in the first part.
Overall I would recomment this book to everyone as it helps in understanding MVC clearly by using simple examples.
 Great MVC for Experienced VB or C# Coders. April 10, 2010
Davis M. DeBard (Crestline, CA USA)
Stephen Walther continues a SAMS tradition in the "Unleashed" series for professionals, including books on AJAX, Silverlight, WCF, LINQ, SQL Server Analysis Services, and others. The series covers both the essentials and the detailed implementation of a successful strategy in implementing the technology.
In ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed, Walther uses both prominent ASP languages, C# and VB.NET to illustrate each point. Though this takes up more space than most texts, it provides real, duplicable code to use in accomplishing tasks.
Walther moves deftly between providing simple examples that demonstrate key points, and providing complete coverage of all options available for topics like the types of HTTP operations available, and how AcceptVerbs relates to this in controllers. He also introduces the breadth of external resources available that interact with MVC, such the NHaml view engine.
He walks you through a simple "Hello World!" application, a simple data enabled application, then goes through each of the key components of a successful MVC application. Finally, he pulls it together with a complete blogging application.
ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed gives a practical exposition of a complex topic. It includes just the right blend of workable code and reference material. It is a fine way to learn MVC.
 Not worth the effort of reading April 8, 2010
S. Terry
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is quite a bit of useful information in this book about MVC, but all of it is so cleverly hidden among chunks of non-functioning examples that I gave up after Chapter 5. It's simply too tightly-coupled with ORM tools and practices unrelated to the MVC paradigm in general to be of any value to me.
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