Professional ASP. NET MVC 4.

Professional ASP.Net MVC 4 -- 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 4 -- ASP.NET MVC 1 Overview -- ASP.NET MVC 2 Overview -- ASP.NET MVC 3 Overview -- MVC 4 Overview -- ASP.NET Web API -- Enhancements to Default Project Templates -- Mobile Project Template using jQuery Mobile -- Display Modes -- Bundling and Minification -- Included Open Source Libraries -- Miscellaneous Features -- Open Source Release -- Creating an MVC 4 Application -- Software Requirements for ASP.NET MVC 4 -- Installing ASP.NET MVC 4 -- Installing the MVC 4 Development Components -- Installing MVC 4 on a Server -- Creating an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application -- The New ASP.NET MVC 4 Dialog -- Application Templates -- View Engines -- Testing -- The MVC Application Structure -- ASP.NET MVC and Conventions -- Convention over Configuration -- Conventions Simplify Communication -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Controllers -- The Controller's Role -- A Sample Application: The MVC Music Store -- Controller Basics -- A Simple Example: The Home Controller -- Writing Your First Controller -- Creating the New Controller -- Writing Your Action Methods -- A Few Quick Observations -- Parameters in Controller Actions -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Views -- The Purpose of Views -- Specifying a View -- ViewData and ViewBag -- Strongly Typed Views -- View Models -- Adding a View -- Understanding the Add View Dialog Options -- The 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 -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Models -- Modeling the Music Store -- Scaffolding a Store Manager -- What Is Scaffolding? -- Empty Controller -- Controller with Empty Read/Write Actions -- API 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 Class -- 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 -- 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 -- Making 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: Membership, Authorization, and Security -- 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 -- Securing Your Entire Application Using a Global Authorization Filter -- Using the Authorize Attribute to Require Role Membership -- Extending Roles and Membership -- External Login via OAuth and OpenID -- Registering External Login Providers -- Configuring OpenID Providers -- Configuring OAuth Providers -- Security Implications of External Logins -- Trusted External Login Providers -- Require SSL for Login -- Understanding the Security Vectors in a Web Application -- Threat: Cross-Site Scripting -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Client-Side Templates -- Adding Templates -- Modifying the Search Form -- Getting JSON -- jQuery.ajax for Maximum Flexibility -- Improving Ajax Performance -- Using Content Delivery Networks -- Script Optimizations -- Bundling and Minification -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Routing -- Uniform Resource Locators -- 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 -- A 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 -- Package Restore -- Using the Package Manager Console -- Creating Packages -- Packaging a Project -- Packaging a Folder -- NuSpec File -- Metadata -- Dependencies -- Specifying Files to Include -- Tools -- Framework and Profile Targeting -- Prerelease Packages -- Publishing Packages -- Publishing to NuGet.org -- Using NuGet.exe -- Using the Package Explorer -- Summary -- Chapter 11: ASP.NET Web API -- Defining ASP.NET Web API -- Getting Started with Web API -- Writing an API Controller -- Examining the Sample ValuesController -- Async by Design: IHttpController -- Incoming Action Parameters -- Action Return Values, Errors, and Asynchrony -- Configuring Web API -- Configuration in Web-Hosted Web API -- Configuration in Self-Hosted Web API -- Configuration in Third-Party Hosts -- Adding Routes to Your Web API -- Binding Parameters -- Filtering Requests -- Enabling Dependency Injection -- Exploring APIs Programmatically -- Tracing the Application -- Web API Example: ProductsController -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Dependency Injection -- 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.

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