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# 3.5 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18979 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 550 pages

Customer Reviews

Fantastic stuff
Bought this book together with the Wrox book by the Microsoft guys Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer). Haven't even bothered to finish that one, although to be fair to them their blogs on various subjects have been very helpful. That book appears to be written according to the MS line of "there is nothing wrong with Webforms, and you can still create a decent website with drag and drop even in MVC", which isn't of course the point of MVC anyway.

This guy's clearly from a professional / freelance background, where 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).

Therefore, not only does he cover this, and also related subjects (Mocking, jQuery etc.) in sufficient detail (also pointing us in the way of other useful literature), but he goes to great lengths to explain WHY things have been done this way in MVC, and the various best practices whose requirements MVC strives to meet.

An indispensible one for any serious ASP.NET developer.

Fantastic. Clear, concise and SO helpful.
Sanderson manages to cook up a feast from the acryonm soup. MVC looks to be THE big thing in the Microsoft development world, and I'm really glad to have found this guide.

Lots of the big brand publishers just commission people to fill in the gaps in their product range and I suspect the big names are just added as glorified editors to give credibility to the underlings. In contrast, 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.

You are not buying a printed version of rehashed documentation, you are buying a well written technical book. Oh so rare and very valuable.

Highly recommended if you're even thinking about moving to the next generation of MS development.

Brilliant!
An engaging and extremely well-written book that is bringing me up to speed on ASP.NET MVC very quickly. Steve Sanderson writes with enviable clarity, and has obviously put a lot of care, love and attention into this book.

Helping Steve and his readers is the MVC framework itself, a modern and beautiful way of writing web applications using Microsoft technology. It's basically "Ruby on Rails", copied by Microsoft (imitation is the sincerest form of flattery) and brought to the WebForms hoardes for a very welcome change in approach.

Being new, material you can trust on ASP.NET MVC is light on the ground of course, while the Internet and the bookstores are bursting full of ASP.NET WebForms knowledge. Steve is the perfect guide to the new world of MVC, and understands completely the changes in attitude and approach that people (like me) are going to have to make. His best quality is putting all the new knowledge in its correct context, anticipating the initial objections that current WebFormers are going to have (What?! You put inline code into the HTML markup?!) Steve greases the wheels of understanding all the way along.

All in all I must say that this is an exceptionally well-written book, and one that is constantly at my side these days.