ASP.NET MVC 4 Essential Training

Learn how to develop modern, dynamic web applications with the ASP.NET MVC 5 framework.

Introduction

• Powerful web applications with MVC 5
• What you should know
• Tools used
• Demo project overview

1. Getting Started with MVC 5

• Model-view-controller (MVC) pattern
• Advantages of MVC
• Visual Studio new project dialog
• Walking through the new project template
• How MVC services requests
• Startup configuration and global routing

2. Startup and Configuration

• Handling events in Global.asax
• App config with App_Start

3. Controllers

• Putting the pieces together
• Using controllers and action methods
• Returning a view response
• Using other response helpers
• Attribute routing
• Advanced attribute routing

4. Filters

• Securing your app with filters
• Customizing your actions with filters
• Altering action results with filters
• Handling exceptions with filters

5. Views

• View folder organized by convention
• Razor: Transitioning from code to markup
• Implicit/explicit expressions and blocks
• Adding comments to Razor
• Handling form posts with IsPost
• Passing data from the controller

6. Strongly Typed Models

• Bringing models and views together
• Building HTML with HTML Helpers
• Advanced use of HTML Helpers
• Define your own inline HTML Helpers
• Creating custom HTML Helpers

7. Sharing Views

• Sharing layouts
• Using bundles and sections in layouts
• Rendering partial views
• Escaping the @ symbol

8. Models

• Data models vs. view models
• Building models with Entity Framework
• Validation with data annotations
• Validation with ModelState
• Displaying validation in the view
• Building custom validation attributes

9. Unit Testing

• Testing a controller's selected view
• Testing a controller's view data

Conclusion

• Next steps