An outstanding author team presents the ultimate Wrox guide to ASP.NET MVC 4 Microsoft insiders join giants of the software development community to offer this in-depth guide to ASP.NET MVC, an essential web development technology. Experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers will find all the important information they need to build dynamic, data-driven websites with ASP.NET and the newest release of Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technology. Featuring step-by-step guidance and lots of code samples, this guide gets you started and moves all the way to advanced topics, using plenty of examples. Designed to give experienced .NET and ASP.NET programmers everything needed to work with the newest version of MVC technology Expert author team includes Microsoft ASP.NET MVC insiders as well as leaders of the programming community Covers controllers, views, models, forms and HTML helpers, data annotation and validation, membership, authorization, security, and routing Includes essential topics such as Ajax and jQuery, NuGet, dependency injection, unit testing, extending MVC, and Razor Includes additional real-world coverage requested by readers of the previous edition as well as a new case study example chapter

An outstanding author team presents the ultimate Wrox guide to ASP.NET MVC 4Microsoft insiders join giants of the software development community to offer this in-depth guide to ASP.NET MVC, an essential web development technology. Experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers will find all the important information they need to build dynamic, data-driven websites with ASP.NET and the newest release of Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technology. Featuring step-by-step guidance and lots of code samples, this guide gets you started and moves all the way to advanced topics, using plenty of examples.* Designed to give experienced .NET and ASP.NET programmers everything needed to work with the newest version of MVC technology* Expert author team includes Microsoft ASP.NET MVC insiders as well as leaders of the programming community* Covers controllers, views, models, forms and HTML helpers, data annotation and validation, membership, authorization, security, and routing* Includes essential topics such as Ajax and jQuery, NuGet, dependency injection, unit testing, extending MVC, and Razor* Includes additional real-world coverage requested by readers of the previous edition as well as a new case study example chapter

FOREWORD xxviiINTRODUCTION xxixCHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED 1CHAPTER 2: CONTROLLERS 31CHAPTER 3: VIEWS 47CHAPTER 4: MODELS 71CHAPTER 5: FORMS AND HTML HELPERS 95CHAPTER 6: DATA ANNOTATIONS AND VALIDATION 119CHAPTER 7: MEMBERSHIP, AUTHORIZATION, AND SECURITY 137CHAPTER 8: AJAX 189CHAPTER 9: ROUTING 221CHAPTER 10: NUGET 249CHAPTER 11: ASP.NET WEB API 279CHAPTER 12: DEPENDENCY INJECTION 297CHAPTER 13: UNIT TESTING 317CHAPTER 14: EXTENDING MVC 341CHAPTER 15: ADVANCED TOPICS 365CHAPTER 16: REAL-WORLD ASP.NET MVC: BUILDING THE NUGET.ORG WEBSITE 423Summary 440INDEX 443