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And thanks to Cody for his infectious happiness. — Phil Haack Thanks to my wife Mo and my sons Zenzo and Thabo for their unlimited supply of smooches. — Scott Hanselman 84619book.indb Listv84619book.indb Listv 3/30/09 2:56:52 PM3/30/09 2:56:52 PM www.it-ebooks.info About the Authors Rob Conery works at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. He is the creator of SubSonic and was the chief architect of the Commerce Starter Kit (a free, Open Source eCommerce platform for .NET). He lives in Kauai, Hawaii, with his wife and two daughters (Maddy and Ruby). Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft’s web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight — a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich Internet applications for the Web. Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for web, client, and Silverlight development. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University. Phil Haack is a senior program manager with the ASP.NET team working on the ASP.NET MVC project. Prior to joining Microsoft, Phil worked as a product manager for a code search engine, a dev manager for an online gaming company, and a senior architect for a popular Spanish language television net- work, among other crazy pursuits. 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When Scott Guthrie showed me this “pet project,” I told him I just had to work on it, so thanks to The Gu for helping to make that possible. Thanks to Levi Broderick for all his editing help, to Brad Wilson for reviewing the chapter on TDD (I still owe you a beer or two), to Eilon Lipton, the lead developer on ASP.NET MVC, for all his deep insight, and to the rest of the MVC feature team (Carl, Fede, Jon, Keith, Simon etc.) for being so much fun to work with. — Phil Haack Thanks to The Gu, and my boss Simon for their support in working on this book. Thanks to Phil Haack, Eilon Lipton, Levi Broderick, and all the ASP.NET MVC guys for making such a rockin’ sweet framework. — Scott Hanselman 84619book.indb Listviii84619book.indb Listviii 3/30/09 2:56:52 PM3/30/09 2:56:52 PM www.it-ebooks.info [...]... 2: Model-View-Controller and ASP.NET What Is Model-View-Controller? MVC on the Web Today Ruby on Rails Django and Python Spring, Struts, and Java Zend Framework and PHP MonoRail ASP.NET MVC: The New Kid on the Block Serving Methods, Not Files Is This Web Forms 4.0? Why Not Web Forms? Cost/Benefit of Web Forms Should You Fear ASP.NET MVC? Summary Chapter 3: ASP.NET > ASP.NET MVC Abstraction: What Web Forms... “Chapter 1 “NerdDinner” from Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 written by Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie published by Wrox (ISBN: 978-0-470-38461-9) may be redistributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 3.0 license The original electronic copy is available at http://tinyurl.com/aspnetmvc The complete book Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is copyright 2009 by... the MVC pattern and how ASP.NET MVC implements that pattern Chapter 1 starts off with a description of the Model-View-Controller pattern, explaining the basic concepts of the pattern and providing a bit of its history The chapter goes on to describe the state of the MVC pattern on the Web today as it is implemented by various frameworks, such as ASP.NET MVC Chapter 2 covers the ways that ASP.NET MVC. .. Angle Brackets Client IDs Testing Back to Basics: ASP.NET MVC Believes Orchestration versus Composing Separation of Concerns: What It Means Approaches to Maintainability Caring About Testability Common Reactions to ASP.NET MVC This Looks Like Classic ASP from 1999! Who Moved My “ Yet Another Web Framework Why “ (ASP.NET > ASP.NET MVC) == True” Convention over Configuration Your... familiar with ASP.NET Web Forms, at least peripherally There are a lot of ASP.NET Web Forms developers out there who are interested in ASP.NET MVC, so there are a number of places in this book where we contrast the two technologies Even if you’re not already an ASP.NET developer, you might still find these sections interesting for context, as well as for your own edification, as ASP.NET MVC may not be... the same way about ASP.NET MVC Not because it’s “something different” but because it offers developers the ultimate chance to “do it their way.” You don’t like the way the platform renders the View? Change it! Just about every part of the ASP.NET MVC Framework is “swappable” — if the shoes pinch, get different shoes Don’t like ties? Why not a bow tie? You’re totally in control ASP.NET MVC is a web framework... 2 covers the ways that ASP.NET MVC is different from ASP.NET Web Forms and how to get ASP.NET MVC up and running Chapter 3 explores the structure of a standard MVC application and covers what you get out of the box It covers some of the conventions and the digs a little under the hood to take a look at the entire request lifecycle for an ASP.NET MVC request Chapter 4 digs deep into routing to describe... one of those developers, or even if you’re just curious, this book is for you MVC allows for (buzzword alert!) a “greater separation of concerns” between components in your application We’ll go into the ramifications of this later on, but if it had to be said it in a quick sentence: ASP.NET MVC is ASP.NET Unplugged ASP.NET MVC is a tinkerer’s framework that gives you very finegrained control over your... to Test Driven Development (TDD) as it applies to ASP.NET MVC It then goes on to examine real-world patterns and practices for building applications that are testable The final part of the book covers guidance and best practices as well as providing a look ahead at the future of the ASP.NET MVC platform Chapter 12 goes into detail on how Web Forms and MVC fit together and covers ways to have the two coexist... same application, as well as how to migrate an app from Web Forms to MVC We tried to organize the book in such a way that when you read it in order, each chapter builds on the previous one If you already familiar with ASP.NET MVC you might skip directly to Chapter 4 and go from there What You Need to Use This Book To use ASP.NET MVC, you’ll probably want a copy of Visual Studio You can use Visual Studio . 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