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this is the book i wanted to learn a bit more about ASP.NET MVC, i have no regrets buying it, its very enlightening, i would say more but i have only read the first chapter!
Rating: 5 / 5

During 2008 and first quarter of 2009, Microsoft developed a new framework, based on the MVC design pattern (Model, View, Controller). This framework, which allows better control over the generated HTML, lighter pages, and easier unit testing, is the subject of this book. This book written by Jeffery Palermo, Ben Scheirman, and Jimmy Bogard do an excellent job of explaining the new technology of ASP.NET MVC.

After a brief introduction, chapter one takes us quickly into action, with a quick review of the default MVC application’s code. This review gives us a short presentation of some of the main actors of the framework, namely the View, Routes and the Controller.

The following chapters will go into detail in the three frameworks initials. After a chapter devoted entirely to the model, including a introduction to Domain Driven Development (or DDD), which will be used throughout the book, the next chapter details controllers, and anything that can be applied to them (unit tests, customization of the various components, and filters). The fourth chapter of the book is centered on the view, including master pages, standard views and partial views.

The next chapter is devoted to the fourth musketeer of MVC, the Routing. This chapter contains a set of good practices for route design, and explains how to test that the routes are correctly mapped to the site pages.

A brief review of the topics covered:

-Getting started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework

-The Model in depth

-The Controller in depth

-Views in depth

-Routing

-Customizing and extending the ASP.NET MVC Framework

-Scaling the architecture to more complex sites

-Leveraging existing ASP.NET features

-AJAX in ASP.NET MVC (which includes coverage of jQuery!)

-Hosting and Deployment

-Exploring MonoRail and Ruby on Rails

-Best Practices

-Recipes

All the authors explain each one of the topics in great detail with easy to follow exmamples good for any reader with some level of programming experience. I used this book to help me work on a project at work that was due in only a couple weeks. I was able to get quickly up to speed on the project after reading the first few chapters.

A great book and I highly recommend it!

Rating: 5 / 5