If you've ever had to build a working model from scratch, or produce a quick prototype for something, you know it's trickier than it sounds. Thankfully, Ed Charbeneau shows us the tools he uses to make it both quick and easy to produce fantastic (and fantastic-looking) working prototypes in ASP.NET MVC.… Read more
The Web API framework is a useful tool for building RESTful ASP.NET MVC4 applications, but it's not essential. Dino Esposito demonstrates how you can use MVC3 to simulate several of the really useful web API framework features, and still maintain a nice, clean controller method.… Read more
There are several frameworks that take away the hard work of implementing a responsive design for a website, that will render pages appropriately according to the size of the window. Ed Charbeneau has pioneered the use of Zurb's Foundation Framework in ASP.NET MVC and describes how easy it is to install and use.… Read more
We've inherited from the original MVC pattern a rather simplistic idea of what should be in the Model. In fact, in ASP.NET MVC, there are three distinct types of model: the domain model, view model and input model. As the data behind an ASP.NET MVC application becomes more complex, the more the view model and domain model may diverge.… Read more
MongoDB is one of the more intriguing 'NoSQL' databases to emerge from 'Cloud' computing. Sometimes, the best way of understanding a rather different technology is to get stuck-in and try it out, so Jeremy Jarrell shows how to get started with a simple ASP.NET MVC project that uses MongoDB.… Read more
When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The ones that Visual Studio provide are very useful, but you can create your own if you want, and Dino finds that the generic one that he presents in this article works well to rapidly create MVC applications.… Read more
The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It doesn't guarantee that your application will be well-designed and quick to test. For that, attention to use-cases and the structure of your code is essential.… Read more
You develop an ASP.NET MVC application by extending it; customising any default logic that you wish to change with your own implementation. Simone starts a tour of the extensibility points of ASP.NET MVC, by looking at the beginning of the pipeline, the Routing Module, and gives a practical example of writing an extension, with source code: a way of 'watermaking' images 'on the fly'.… Read more
The Model-View-Controller pattern of the ASP.NET MVC allows the separation of the business logic from the input and presentation logic. Although it permits the independent development, testing and maintenance of each component, it doesn't guarantee clean code. Dino Esposito offers a modified approach in which an Orchestrator component helps to keep your controllers small, clean and manageable.… Read more
Because ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle; almost every logical step of the processing pipeline can be replaced with your own implementation. In fact, the best way to develop applications with ASP.NET MVC is to extend the system, Simone starts a series that explains how to implement extensions to ASP.NET MVC, starting with the ones at the beginning of the pipeline (routing extensions) and finishing with the view extensions points.… Read more
The Action Result in ASP.NET MVC provides a simple and versatile means of returning different types of response to the browser. Want to serve a PDF file with dynamically-generated content? Do an SEO-friendly permanent redirect? Dino shows you how simple this can be using a tailor-made ActionResult class… Read more
ASP.NET developers can learn a lot from MVC practices. This article shows you how to structure a WebPage in an ASP.Net web application so that it is behaves like an MVC View, and suggests a number of ways to increase the quality, and portability, of ASP.NET applications by encapsulation, and separating the logic between the Presenter and View.
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