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Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0

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Although I've been a Web Developer for several years, I changed my career path since few years and all my knowledge about Web Programming was not-so-fresh.
Beginning ASP.NET MVC drove me through the new way of making THE WEB with the MVC pattern in the .NET World.

Simone and Keyvan start with Chapters regarding all the basic building blocks of ASP.NET MVC (from what a Model/ a View / a Controller are, to ActionFilters, ActionControllers and so on) with very clever examples.

Every chapter starts with the assumption the reader has no knowledge about such topic and, at the end, makes you aware of what that piece is and how to use it in next chapters.

I've been ready in less than 2 weeks with my first real-world (simple) Application...and I neither finished the book at that time!

The book also covers technologies an "ASP.NET MVC Starter" should know about to let a Web Application works: Ajax, Security (Authentication - Authorization).
Final Chapters get the reader a basic but good idea on how to extend ASP.NET MVC and how to use it in the real world following a couple of
Case Studies.

All chapters are pushing the reader thru the Test-Driven Development methodology: the way of programming ASP.NET MVC has been though on.
Very practical but won't leave you without theoretical topics in mind.

It is my definitive MVC Reference even now I feel more "comfortable" with this new Technology: it covers all I need for a good Web Application.

Personal Experience and gain in knowledge: EXCELLENT; one of the best technical book I ever read.

What I really liked on reading this book was the "I show you the actual code and then explain how it works" approach. It's very practical: you won't find a lot of theoretical concepts (although they're definitely part of the book) as any concept is explained by examples which you can eventually reproduce on your own computer. The book covers a wide range of aspects about developing web apps with ASP.NET MVC, starting from the basics of the project's anatomy, going through AJAX and Unit testing, and ending with customizing the framework to your needs. If you are a web forms developer, you never touched MVC and you want to be ready for it in a couple of weeks, well... this book is for you.
Enjoy!

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about ASP.NET MVC.

This book is more oriented towards the ASP.NET WebForms programmer who are trying to make the transition to

ASP.NET MVC way of programming. Having said that anyone - even those who have not done ASP.NET WebForms

programming - can understand the concept and can get going. The book explains things gradually step by step so

that any body can understand it. The book also contains "Try it out" sessions where the sources are given

first and then explained later by highlighted code. The highlighted code reinforce the new concepts we just

got introduced to. The book also provides exercises to do at the end of each chapter and the solutions are

provided in Appendix B in case you are struck with your solution. In short this book covers everything a MVC

beginner programmer needs to know.

Sometimes I wish the authors are precise and not very eloborate - but I guess the authors wanted to make sure

that the beginner gets the concepts right and so were very eloborate.

Although I haven't read it cover to cover yet, I purchased this because the rest of the dev team are all making use of MVC, and given that my dev role is secondary (Primarly a DBA), I don't get to play in the big projects.

But flipping through the book, I can easily tell that this is going to fill in a lot of the gaps and answer the questions I've been having while trying to get up to speed.

I have just finished reading this book and I find that has been written very well, in very easy way to read, with and many examples that guide the readers step by step through all the chapters of the book.
It was easy for me to learn MVC on ASP.NET by the case study and and exercises.
I think that It's one of the best books to learn MVC ASP.NET. Great book really.

ASP.NET MVC is at first glance a deceptively simple framework. In fact, one of its purposes for existing is because the ASP.NET page model is so complicated. So why then does someone need a book to learn such a technology? The simple answer is that learning a technology is more than just learning the different parts that make up the whole, it is about understanding the its purpose, and understanding all of the concepts that sit around the technology's periphery.

This is where Beginning ASP.NET MVC really excels. The book starts off with the usual form of describing the MVC pattern, and then delves into describing how each part relates to the ASP.NET MVC framework. It then moves into more advanced topics such as routing and testing of ASP.NET MVC applications. Don't let the title fool you though, after it gives you a nice slow ramp up into ASP.NET MVC basics, it then gives you a thorough and complete look into the more advanced aspects of the framework.

By the time you are done with this book, you will have more than enough knowledge at your fingertips in order to confidently implement a real world MVC application. And not just a simple one page static html page, but one with authentication, authorization, ajax, javascript, deployment, etc...

So, if you need to get up to speed on ASP.NET MVC quickly and without having to dig through a ton of unrelated fluff, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Beginner ASP.NET MVC. You'll enjoy it!

After doing some reading over the weekend, I can say this book is great! It follows a different path than most of the ASP.NET MVC books out there today: of course it offers the basic introduction to ASP.NET MVC, it talks about models, controllers, views, ..., however: it also covers more advanced topics like dependency injection (using NInject).

Near the end of the book, some case studies are discussed: first a blog engine is built from ground up. The second case study is about building a photo gallery application.

If you need a book which gives you the basics and some more advanced topics, Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is really for you. I liked reading it, and Simone and Keyvan have done a great job in explaining all there is to the great ASP.NET MVC framework. Looking forward to read more books by these guys!

This book is the perfect introduction to asp.net MVC. It covers all you need to start writing an asp.net mvc application, and it gives you a lot of suggestion on how to structure your site.

The books cover all basic aspects, with a good coverage on the foundation concepts like: Routing, Separation from controller view and model, testing etc. Even if it covers the basic of asp.net mvc, I suggest it even to people that already know mvc, but never read a book on the subject, you can find useful suggestion here.

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Summary and structure of the book.
The book has 19 chapters plus a couple of appendixes. Each chapter covers a specific argument. At the end of each chapter there is always a section for the exercises and a summary section. The first thing you will like about this book is the huge amount of sample code!

At the end of the book there is the appendix B that contains all the solutions related to each exercise, so you won't get lost.

The appendix A has a lot of useful links that you can follow, resources, links, books and more.

Finally there is the index that is done for a "dev" reader. It's not a normal index but an index divided by alphabetic order that includes also all those components and "code" that you will find in the book. So you will find, for example, the page that talks about "NHibernate".

Case studies.
What I really liked about this book is the 2 case studies that you will find at the end. Simone has created these 2 case studies that will reflect 2 real solutions, one is a blog and the second one is ... a surprise. I am not going to tell you everything because you must buy it. [;)]

This is something really well done as you will apply all the knowledge you got through the book into 2 real solutions!

Chapters.
Of course I am not going to describe each chapter, but this is the list of chapters so you can understand why this book is so well done, IMHO:

MVC pattern
WebForm VS MVC
Getting started
The model
The controller
The view
Routing
Unite test concepts
Testing ASP.NET MVC
Components
Action filters
AJAX
Deployment
Leveraging ASP.NET WebForm futures
Authentication and authorization
Extend ASP.NET MVC
Migrating from ASP.NET
Case studies
Resources
Exercises solutions
Final Considerations.
I am a NET developer, most of time I develop Silverlight/WPF or WinForm applications. For fun I did a couple of ASP.NET MVC applications in the bank where I was working before, but my knowledge about ASP.NET MVC was relative to those projects.

Now that I got this book, I was able to read all the aspect of MVC pattern applied to ASP.NET and I feel comfortable to build a real application with this framework.

I did a real ASP.NET MVC application for the Company where I am working now, and I was able to do everything is less than 1 week, including the use of JQuery and AJAX.

I am really satisfied of this book and I hope that you will buy it as it is a very nice and well written book that will drive you inside this pretty cool framework.

If you are looking for a way to dive into Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC then this is it. This was the base from which I was able to develop full fledged enterprise applications. Highly recommended.