Hands on With ASP.NET MVC

Hands on With

ASP.NET

MVC

Hands on With

ASP.NET MVC

Rahul Sahay

Quills Ink Publishing

Copyright © 2014 Rahul Sahay

Hardcover ISBN : 978-93-84318-52-9

Softcover ISBN : 978-93-84318-53-6

Ebook ISBN : 978-93-84318-54-3

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Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Understanding ASP.NET MVC

The MVC Pattern

Brief History of MVC Pattern

MVC Life Cycle

Software Requirements

Application Glimpse

Creating a MVC application

How MVC applications are structured

Summary

Chapter 2: Understanding Controllers

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Controllers

Working with your 1st controller

Action Results

Action Selectors

Action Filters

Summary

Chapter 3: Views

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Views

Syntax of Razor Views

How to Prevent Cross Site Scripting Attack

More on Razor Syntax

Layout Views

HTML Helpers

HTML.ValidationSummary

Some more HTML Helpers

Partial Views

Viewbag and Viewdata

Summary

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Data modeling

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Using Entity Framework

Entities Creation

Database Migrations

LINQ

Search Query

Summary

Chapter 5: Data modeling-Part 2

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Organizing Movie Controller

Reviews Listing

Create and Edit Facility of Review

Validation Annotations

Summary

Chapter 6: JavaScript and AJAX in MVC

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER

Introduction

Managing Scripts

Ajax Helpers

Async Search

Paging

Summary

Chapter 7: Security with ASP.Net MVC

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Authentication

Membership and Forms Authentication

Authorize

Seeding Membership

Cross Site Vulnerability

OpenID and OAuth

Summary

Chapter 8: Caching - ASP.Net Terminology

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Caching

Cache Profiles

Localization

Resource Files

Diagnostics

ELMAH

Summary

Chapter 9: Unit Testing

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

TDD

Home Controller Tests

Web Tests

Load Tests

Code Coverage

Summary

Chapter 10: Deployment

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Configuration Files

Hosting ASP.Net MVC Application

Deployment Preparation

Deployment on IIS

Deployment to Azure

Summary

Chapter 11: Routing Basics

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Route Definition

Areas

Ignore Routes

Debugging Routes

Constructing URLs from Route

Route Data

Route Constraints

Summary

Chapter 12: Web API and Dependency Injection

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Why Web API

Creating a new empty Project

Adding Web API to an ASP.Net Project

Creating your 1st controller

Dependency Injection

Implementing POST

Implementing DELETE

Implementing PUT

Summary

Chapter 13: Making a Mobile Site Using Jquery Mobile

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Setup

Viewports, Widgets and Attributes

Themes and Swatches

Media Query

Layouts and Pages

Collapsibles

Grids and Buttons

Forms

Summary

Chapter 14: ASP.NET MVC

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER?

Introduction

Scaffolding

ASP.Net Identity

One ASP.Net

Bootstrap

Attribute Routing

Filter Overrides

Summary

Chapter 15: ASP.NET MVC

WHAT DO you find in this CHAPTER

Introduction

Features

Prerequisites

Setting up VM

Getting Started with Visual Studio 14

Creating your 1st Visual Studio 14 MVC Project

Configurations in MVC Project

project.json

Startup class

Adding a Class Library Project

Deployment to Azure

Bin

Self Hosting

Summary

Index

Introduction

Hands-on with ASP.NET MVC book give you a fine Launchpad to get started on

MVC. I have written the book in such a fashion that you will solve one case

study while studying the book. By the time you will finish the book, you would

have completed web version and mobile version of development using MVC.

Now, one important point to understand here that ASP.NET MVC is a major

shift for all Microsoft developers. ASP.NET MVC emphasizes clean

architecture, design patterns and testability. At every part of the book you will

get practical example of all the theoretical concepts with complete demo.

ASP.NET MVC is basically a web development framework from Microsoft

which combines the features of MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.

Now, ASP.NET MVC is not something which is built from the ground zero. It

built on the top of ASP.NET, so developers enjoy almost all the ASP.NET

features while building the MVC application. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative

approach to an existing Web Forms approach.

This book is basically comprised of 15 chapters covering all the parts of MVC

development. 1

st chapter starts with the introduction of ASP.NET MVC where in

you will see how MVC gained maturity in different releases. 1

st chapter will also

showcase that what you are going to build by giving the application glimpse in

its finished form. Then, you will start creating your MVC project right from the

scratch. In 2

nd Chapter you will get the complete idea of controllers. Here, after

understanding the basics of controllers, you will be writing your 1

st controller.

2

nd chapter also covers different types of action results, filters and many more

things. 3

rd chapter will have view introduction with syntactic sugar. This section

also explains some of the core concepts of data — (dash) attributes that how

views behind the scenes emit these tags. Apart from HTML helpers, you will

also work with different types of view in it. Chapter 4 and 5 will be all about

data modeling. In this chapter you will come to know how to get started with

entity framework, also how to setup the entities and migrations. Here you will

also see different types of validations in action.

Chapter 6 is all about Client side scripts. Its main focus would be on how to

manage scripts, how to work with Ajax helpers and how to write an Async

Search. Chapter 7 is covering all the security related features like Membership,

Authentication, Roles, Open Authentication and many more things. Now,

chapter 8 is all about infrastructure topic like Caching and different Diagnostics

techniques. This topic stresses how to improve the Application performance by

implementing caching. 9

th chapter is all about testing. It start with unit testing

where in you can test your application logic, then web testing and load testing

where in you can test your website performance in different test scenarios. Then

we have 10

th chapter which is all about deployment. In this case you will 1

st

deploy the application to IIS, then on internet on AZURE. Chapter 11 is all about

routing concepts. This chapter deals with different routing rules. Then, chapter

12 comprise of Web API and Dependency Injection. Both of these topics are

really important and interesting as well. You will learn how to implement both

with a complete application demo. In chapter 13, you will be optimizing your

application in such a way that it will support mobile browsers as well. Then,

Chapter 14 is dedicated to the new features of ASP.NET MVC 5 with complete

demo. Last but not the least which is the bonus part of this book MVC 6; here, in

chapter 15 you will start from the features discussion, then prerequisites required

for MVC 6. MVC 6 is a major breakthrough from Microsoft side towards being

Open Source Compliant. So, stay tuned for a stunning journey.

Acknowledgments This book would not

have been possible without the patient

and loving support of my wife Nivi, who

had to take over much of the household

responsibility apart from her teaching

activities, so I could whisper to myself in

the corner and do my activities with my

laptop. Many thanks also go to my

publisher, Rohan Vij, who took this

responsibility, to publish the book in a

precise and correct way.

Appreciation also goes out to my Mom and Dad for believing in me and always

keeps on encouraging me to complete the book in a best possible way. Also, I

need to acknowledge you, the reader, for your desire to continue your own

growth not only as developer but a smart developer. Obviously, your efforts to

improve your skills make me all work to improve myself to keep up the good

work. Kudos to you, and keep setting the pace at your workplace!

I would also like to Thank Sanjay for writing the FOREWORD for me. He took

his time from his day to day busy schedule, read the complete book; gave his

suggestions for improvement and finally after implementing his suggestions he

wrote foreword for me.