ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: ASP.NET MVC
Chapter 2: Your First ASP.NET MVC Application
Chapter 3: Handling Interactions
Chapter 4: Components in the ASP.NET MVC framework
Chapter 5: Routing
Chapter 6: Customizing and Extending the ASP.NET MVC Framework
Chapter 7: Using Existing ASP.NET Features
Chapter 8: AJAX and ASP.NET MVC
Chapter 9: Testing an Application
Chapter 10: Hosting and Deployment
Appendix A: Reference Application— CarTrackr
Appendix B: ASP.NET MVC Mock Helpers
Appendix C: Useful Links and Open Source Projects Providing Additional Features
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: ASP.NET MVC
  • Model-view-controller
    • View
    • Controller
  • The ASP.NET MVC framework
    • Driving goals of the ASP.NET MVC framework
    • Comparing ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Webforms
    • Choosing between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Webforms
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Your First ASP.NET MVC Application
  • Creating a new ASP.NET MVC web application project
  • What's inside the box?
  • Strong-typed ViewData
  • Creating a new view
  • Unit testing the controller
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Handling Interactions
  • Creating a form
    • Creating a form using HTML
    • Creating a form using HtmlHelper
  • Handling posts
    • Request variables
    • Updating objects from request variables
    • Action method parameters
  • Handling file uploads
    • Creating an upload form
    • Creating an upload controller action
  • Using the ModelBinder attribute
    • Using the default ModelBinder
    • Creating a custom ModelBinder
  • Validating data
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Components in the ASP.NET MVC framework
  • The ASP.NET MVC request life cycle
    • The RouteTable is created
    • The UrlRoutingModule intercepts the request
    • The routing engine determines the route
    • The route handler creates the associated IHttpHandler
    • The IHttpHandler determines the controller
    • The controller executes
    • A ViewEngine is created
    • The view is rendered
  • Extensibility
    • Route objects
    • MvcRouteHandler
    • ControllerFactory
    • Controller
    • ViewEngine
    • View
  • The model in depth
    • Creating a model
    • Enabling validation on the model
  • The controller in depth
    • Creating a controller
    • Rendering data on the response
    • Reading data from the request
    • Action method selection
    • Handling unknown controller actions
    • Action method attributes
  • The view in depth
    • Location of views
    • Creating a view
    • Master pages
    • View markup
    • Partial views
  • Action filters
    • IAuthorizationFilter
    • IActionFilter
    • IResultFilter
    • IExceptionFilter
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Routing
  • What is ASP.NET routing?
  • ASP.NET routing versus URL rewriting
  • UrlRoutingModule
  • Route patterns
  • Defining routes
    • Parameter constraints
    • Catch-all routes
    • Routing namespaces
    • Combining ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET in one web application
  • Creating URLs from routes
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Customizing and Extending the ASP.NET MVC Framework
  • Creating a control
  • Creating a filter attribute
  • Creating a custom ActionResult
  • Creating a ViewEngine
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Using Existing ASP.NET Features
  • Session State
    • Reading and writing session data
    • Configuring session state
    • TempData
  • Membership, authentication, and authorization
    • Configuring web site security
    • Implementing user and role based security in a controller
    • Configurable authentication options
  • Caching
  • Globalization
    • Resources
      • Using local resources
      • Using global resources
    • Setting language and culture preferences
  • Mixing ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC
    • Plugging ASP.NET MVC into an existing ASP.NET application
    • Plugging ASP.NET into an existing ASP.NET MVC application
    • Sharing data between ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
  • Building views at compile time
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: AJAX and ASP.NET MVC
  • Different AJAX frameworks
    • XMLHttpRequest
    • JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
  • ASP.NET AJAX
    • ASP.NET MVC AJAX helper
    • Working with JsonResult
  • jQuery
    • jQuery syntax
    • Using jQuery with ASP.NET MVC
    • Working with JsonResult
    • Using jQuery UI
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Testing an Application
  • Unit testing
    • Unit testing frameworks
    • Hello, unit testing!
    • Generating unit tests
    • Testing the action method
    • Mocking frameworks
    • Testing the Login action method
  • Mocking ASP.NET components
  • Testing routes
  • Testing UpdateModel scenarios
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Hosting and Deployment
  • Platforms that can be used
  • Differences between IIS 7.0 integrated and classic mode
  • Hosting an ASP.NET MVC web application
    • Creating a wildcard script map in IIS 7.0
    • Creating a wildcard script map in IIS 6.0
    • Modifying the route table to use file extensions
  • Summary

• Appendix A: Reference Application— CarTrackr
  • CarTrackr functionality
    • Home page
    • Login screen
    • List of cars
    • Car details
    • Refuellings list
  • Data layer
    • Linq to SQL model
    • Repository pattern
  • Dependency injection
    • How CarTrackr controllers are built
    • Using Unity for dependency injection
  • ASP.NET MVC Membership Starter Kit
  • Form validation
  • ASP.NET provider model
  • Unit testing CarTrackr
    • Unit tests in CarTrackr
    • Mock repository
  • Summary

• Appendix B: ASP.NET MVC Mock Helpers
  • RhinoMocks
  • Moq
  • TypeMock

• Appendix C: Useful Links and Open Source Projects Providing Additional Features
  • Information portals
    • ASP.NET/MVC
    • Aspdotnetmvc.com
    • DotNetKicks.com: Articles tagged with ASP.NET MVC
  • Blogs
  • Open source projects providing additional features for the ASP.NET MVC framework
    • ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery
    • MVC Contrib
    • xVal validation framework
    • ASP.NET MVC Membership Starter Kit
    • XForms
    • jQuery for ASP.NET MVC
    • Simple ASP.NET MVC controls
  • Alternative view engines
    • Spark view engine
    • NHaml view engine
    • NVelocity view engine
  • Example ASP.NET MVC applications
    • MVC storefront
    • FlickrExplorer
    • Yonkly
    • Kigg
    • CarTrackr

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