Professional ASP.NET MVC 3.

Professional Asp.Net Mvc 3 -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Getting Started -- A Quick Introduction to ASP.NET MVC -- How ASP.NET MVC Fits in with ASP.NET -- The MVC Pattern -- MVC as Applied to Web Frameworks -- The Road to MVC 3 -- ASP.NET MVC 1 Overview -- ASP.NET MVC 2 Overview -- ASP.NET MVC 3 Overview -- Razor View Engine -- Validation Improvements -- .NET 4 Data Annotation Support -- Streamlined Validation with Improved Model Validation -- Rich JavaScript Support -- Unobtrusive JavaScript -- jQuery Validation -- JSON Binding -- Advanced Features -- Dependency Resolution -- Global Action Filters -- MVC 3 Feature Summary: Easier at All Levels -- Creating an MVC 3 Application -- Software Requirements for ASP.NET MVC 3 -- Installing ASP.NET MVC 3 -- Installing the MVC 3 Development Components -- Installing MVC 3 on a Server -- Creating an ASP.NET MVC 3 Application -- The New ASP.NET MVC 3 Dialog -- Application Templates -- View Engines -- Testing -- Understanding the MVC Application Structure -- ASP.NET MVC and Conventions -- Convention over Configuration -- Conventions Simplify Communication -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Controllers -- The Controller's Role -- A Brief History of Controllers -- A Sample Application: The MVC Music Store -- Controller Basics -- A Simple Example: The Home Controller -- Writing Your First (Outrageously Simple) Controller -- Creating the New Controller -- Writing Your Action Methods -- A Few Quick Observations -- Parameters in Controller Actions -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Views -- What a View Does -- Specifying a View -- Strongly Typed Views -- View Models -- Adding a View -- Understanding the Add View Dialog Options -- Customizing the T4 View Templates -- Razor View Engine -- What is Razor? -- Code Expressions -- Html Encoding -- Code Blocks -- Razor Syntax Samples -- Implicit Code Expression.

Explicit Code Expression -- Unencoded Code Expression -- Code Block -- Combining Text and Markup -- Mixing Code and Plain Text -- Escaping the Code Delimiter -- Server Side Comment -- Calling a Generic Method -- Layouts -- ViewStart -- Specifying a Partial View -- The View Engine -- Configuring a View Engine -- Finding a View -- The View Itself -- Alternative View Engines -- New View Engine or New ActionResult? -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Models -- Modeling the Music Store -- Scaffolding a Store Manager -- What Is Scaffolding? -- Empty Controller -- Controller with Empty Read/Write Actions -- Controller with Read/Write Actions and Views, Using Entity Framework -- Scaffolding and the Entity Framework -- Code First Conventions -- The DbContext -- Executing the Scaffolding Template -- The Data Context -- The StoreManagerController -- The Views -- Executing the Scaffolded Code -- Creating Databases with the Entity Framework -- Using Database Initializers -- Seeding a Database -- Editing an Album -- Building a Resource to Edit an Album -- Models and View Models Redux -- The Edit View -- Responding to the Edit POST Request -- The Edit Happy Path -- The Edit Sad Path -- Model Binding -- The DefaultModelBinder -- A Word on Model Binding Security -- Explicit Model Binding -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Forms and HTML Helpers -- Using Forms -- The Action and the Method -- To GET or To POST -- Searching for Music with a Search Form -- Searching for Music by Calculating the Action Attribute Value -- HTML Helpers -- Automatic Encoding -- Make Helpers Do Your Bidding -- Inside HTML Helpers -- Setting Up the Album Edit Form -- Html.BeginForm -- Html.ValidationSummary -- Adding Inputs -- Html.TextBox (and Html.TextArea) -- Html.Label -- Html.DropDownList (and Html.ListBox) -- Html.ValidationMessage -- Helpers, Models, and View Data.

Strongly-Typed Helpers -- Helpers and Model Metadata -- Templated Helpers -- Helpers and ModelState -- Other Input Helpers -- Html.Hidden -- Html.Password -- Html.RadioButton -- Html.CheckBox -- Rendering Helpers -- Html.ActionLink and Html.RouteLink -- URL Helpers -- Html.Partial and Html.RenderPartial -- Html.Action and Html.RenderAction -- Passing Values to RenderAction -- Cooperating with the ActionName Attribute -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Data Annotations and Validation -- Annotating Orders for Validation -- Using Validation Annotations -- Required -- StringLength -- RegularExpression -- Range -- Validation Attributes from System.Web.Mvc -- Custom Error Messages and Localization -- Looking Behind the Annotation Curtain -- Validation and Model Binding -- Validation and Model State -- Controller Actions and Validation Errors -- Custom Validation Logic -- Custom Annotations -- IValidatableObject -- Display and Edit Annotations -- Display -- ScaffoldColumn -- DisplayFormat -- ReadOnly -- DataType -- UIHint -- HiddenInput -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Securing Your Application -- Using the Authorize Attribute to Require Login -- Securing Controller Actions -- How the AuthorizeAttribute Works with Forms Authentication and the AccountController -- Windows Authentication in the Intranet Application Template -- Securing Entire Controllers -- Using the Authorize Attribute to Require Role Membership -- Extending Roles and Membership -- Understanding the Security Vectors in a Web Application -- Threat: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) -- Threat Summary -- Passive Injection -- Active Injection -- Preventing XSS -- Threat: Cross-Site Request Forgery -- Threat Summary -- Preventing CSRF Attacks -- Threat: Cookie Stealing -- Threat Summary -- Preventing Cookie Theft with HttpOnly -- Threat: Over-Posting -- Threat Summary.

Preventing Over-Posting with the Bind Attribute -- Threat: Open Redirection -- Threat Summary -- Protecting Your ASP.NET MVC 1 and MVC 2 Applications -- Taking Additional Actions When an Open Redirect Attempt Is Detected -- Open Redirection Summary -- Proper Error Reporting and the Stack Trace -- Using Configuration Transforms -- Using Retail Deployment Configuration in Production -- Using a Dedicated Error Logging System -- Security Recap and Helpful Resources -- Summary: It's Up to You -- Chapter 8: AJAX -- jQuery -- jQuery Features -- The jQuery Function -- jQuery Selectors -- jQuery Events -- jQuery and AJAX -- Unobtrusive JavaScript -- Using jQuery -- Custom Scripts -- Placing Scripts in Sections -- And Now for the Rest of the Scripts -- AJAX Helpers -- AJAX ActionLinks -- HTML 5 Attributes -- AJAX Forms -- Client Validation -- jQuery Validation -- Custom Validation -- IClientValidatable -- Custom Validation Script Code -- Beyond Helpers -- jQuery UI -- Autocomplete with jQuery UI -- Adding the Behavior -- Building the Data Source -- JSON and jQuery Templates -- Adding Templates -- Modifying the Search Form -- Get JSON! -- jQuery.ajax for Maximum Flexibility -- Improving AJAX Performance -- Using Content Delivery Networks -- Script Optimizations -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Routing -- Understanding URLs -- Introduction to Routing -- Comparing Routing to URL Rewriting -- Defining Routes -- Route URLs -- Route Values -- Route Defaults -- Route Constraints -- Named Routes -- MVC Areas -- Area Route Registration -- Area Route Conflicts -- Catch-All Parameter -- Multiple URL Parameters in a Segment -- StopRoutingHandler and IgnoreRoute -- Debugging Routes -- Under the Hood: How Routes Generate URLs -- High-Level View of URL Generation -- Detailed Look at URL Generation -- Ambient Route Values -- Overflow Parameters.

More Examples of URL Generation with the Route Class -- Under the Hood: How Routes Tie Your URL to an Action -- The High-Level Request Routing Pipeline -- RouteData -- Custom Route Constraints -- Using Routing with Web Forms -- Summary -- Chapter 10: NuGet -- Introduction to NuGet -- Installing NuGet -- Adding a Library as a Package -- Finding Packages -- Installing a Package -- Updating a Package -- Recent Packages -- Using the Package Manager Console -- Creating Packages -- Folder Structure -- NuSpec File -- Metadata -- Dependencies -- Specifying Files to Include -- Tools -- Framework and Profile Targeting -- Publishing Packages -- Publishing to NuGet.org -- Publishing Using NuGet.exe -- Using the Package Explorer -- Hosting A Private NuGet Feed -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Dependency Injection -- Understanding Software Design Patterns -- Design Pattern: Inversion of Control -- Design Pattern: Service Locator -- Strongly-Typed Service Locator -- Weakly-Typed Service Locator -- The Pros and Cons of Service Locators -- Design Pattern: Dependency Injection -- Constructor Injection -- Property Injection -- Dependency Injection Containers -- Using the Dependency Resolver -- Singly-Registered Services -- Multiply-Registered Services -- Creating Arbitrary Objects -- Creating Controllers -- Creating Views -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Unit Testing -- The Meaning of Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development -- Defining Unit Testing -- Testing Small Pieces of Code -- Testing in Isolation -- Testing Only Public Endpoints -- Automated Results -- Unit Testing as a Quality Activity -- Defining Test-Driven-Development -- The Red/Green Cycle -- Refactoring -- Structuring Tests with Arrange, Act, Assert -- The Single Assertion Rule -- Creating a Unit Test Project -- Examining the Default Unit Tests -- Only Test the Code You Write.

Tips and Tricks for Unit Testing Your ASP.NET MVC Application.