Introduction to ASP.NET MVC3 & MVC4

By: Chad W. Stoker (MCTS, MCP, MCAD)President & Chief Technology Officer

ASP.NET MVC Lifecyce

Reminder: Quick Security

Setting up an ASP.NET Security db model is as simple as : aspnet_regsql

There are different options…

I’ll use: aspnet_regsql –S . –E –d MVCMadness –A mr

Starting Out w/ ASP.NET Classic

How to turn this:

Into THIS!

Little gotcha w/ ASP.NET MVC4 RC

If you run into a problem like: The type 'System.Web.Mvc.ModelClientValidationRule' exists in both 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v2.0\Assemblies\System.Web.WebPages.dll' and 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 3\Assemblies\System.Web.Mvc.dll

◦Find this in your *.csproj file…<Reference Include="System.Web.WebPages/>

◦Replace with: <Reference Include="System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL "/>

And more ASP.NET MVC4 gotchas!

◦Find this in your *.csproj file…<Reference Include="System.Web.Helpers/>

◦Replace with: <Reference Include="System.Web.Helpers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL "/>

Also, add this to your Web.config’s appSettings node, and reload the CSPROJ file.

See: ASP.NET MVC4 Release Notes for more

Note about Web.config update for ASP.NET Classic projects

Don’t forget to check out the Web.txt file to find the contents to paste into your ASP.NET classic web.config file.

Refer to : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2011/01/20/how-to-get-razor-intellisense-for-model-in-a-class-library-project.aspx

Accessing RoutingData

From ASPX Forms… use Page.RouteData[]From MVC views… use

@Url.RequestContext.RouteDataFrom MVC controllers… use RouteData[]

More at:http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/article.php/c18645/MVC3-Routing.htm

Working w/ Partial-Views

@Html.Partial(“”) in viewsreturn PartialView(); in controllers

Can dynamically generate HTML content with Jquery script…

Can override the View-Engine to make searching for your specific folder structure simple!

Working w/ Simple DataBinding

This is not about how to use Knockout.js… yet.

HTML Helpers.

ModelBinder and what it does…

Good use of Error Partial-View concept…

Overriding Security… for SAW?

ASP.NET MVC4… the WebAPI

Now you can do WCF with MVC… seriously.