Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 5 -- MVC 4 Overview -- Open-Source Release -- ASP.NET MVC 5 Overview -- One ASP.NET -- New Web Project Experience -- ASP.NET Identity -- Bootstrap Templates -- Attribute Routing -- ASP.NET Scaffolding -- Authentication Filters -- Filter Overrides -- Installing MVC 5 and Creating Applications -- Software Requirements for ASP.NET MVC 5 -- Installing ASP.NET MVC 5 -- Creating an ASP.NET MVC 5 Application -- The New ASP.NET Project Dialog -- 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 -- Parameters in Controller Actions -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Views -- The Purpose of Views -- View Basics -- Understanding View Conventions -- Strongly Typed Views -- How ViewBag Falls Short -- Understanding ViewBag, ViewData, and ViewDataDictionary -- View Models -- Adding a View -- The Razor View Engine -- What Is Razor? -- Code Expressions -- HTML Encoding -- Code Blocks -- Razor Syntax Samples -- Layouts -- ViewStart -- Specifying a Partial View -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Models -- Modeling the Music Store -- Scaffolding a Store Manager -- What Is Scaffolding? -- Scaffolding and the Entity Framework -- Executing the Scaffolding Template -- Executing the Scaffolded Code -- Editing an Album -- Building a Resource to Edit an Album -- Responding to the Edit POST Request -- 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? -- HTML Helpers -- Automatic Encoding -- Making Helpers Do Your Bidding -- Inside HTML Helpers -- Setting Up the Album Edit Form -- Adding Inputs -- 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 -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Data Annotations and Validation -- Annotating Orders for Validation -- Using Validation Annotations -- Custom Error Messages and Localization -- Looking Behind the Annotation Curtain -- 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 -- Security: Not fun, But Incredibly Important -- Using the Authorize Attribute to Require Login -- Securing Controller Actions -- How AuthorizeAttribute Works with Forms Authentication and the AccountController -- Windows Authentication -- Using AuthorizeAttribute to Require Role Membership -- Extending User Identity -- Storing additional user profile data -- Persistance control -- Managing users and roles -- External Login via OAuth and OpenID -- Registering External Login Providers -- Configuring OpenID Providers -- Configuring OAuth Providers -- Security Implications of External Logins -- Understanding the Security Vectors in a Web Application -- Threat: Cross-Site Scripting.

Threat: Cross-Site Request Forgery -- Threat: Cookie Stealing -- Threat: Over-Posting -- Threat: Open Redirection -- 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 -- Unobtrusive JavaScript -- Using jQuery -- Ajax Helpers -- Adding the Unobtrusive Ajax Script to Your Project -- Ajax ActionLinks -- HTML 5 Attributes -- Ajax Forms -- Client Validation -- jQuery Validation -- Custom Validation -- Beyond Helpers -- jQuery UI -- Autocomplete with jQuery UI -- JSON and Client-Side Templates -- Bootstrap Plugins -- 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 -- Routing Approaches -- Defining Attribute Routes -- Defining Traditional Routes -- Choosing Attribute Routes or Traditional Routes -- Named Routes -- MVC Areas -- Catch-All Parameter -- Multiple Route Parameters in a Segment -- StopRoutingHandler and IgnoreRoute -- Debugging Routes -- Inside Routing: How Routes Generate URLs -- High-Level View of URL Generation -- A Detailed Look at URL Generation -- Ambient Route Values -- More Examples of URL Generation with the Route Class -- Inside Routing: 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 -- Adding a Library as a Package -- Finding Packages -- Installing a Package -- Updating a Package -- Package Restore.

Using the Package Manager Console -- Creating Packages -- Packaging a Project -- Packaging a Folder -- Configuration File and Source Code Transformations -- 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 -- 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 Single Page Applications with AngularJS -- Understanding and Setting Up AngularJS -- What's AngularJS? -- Your Goal in This Chapter -- Getting Started -- Adding AngularJS to the Site -- Setting Up the Database -- Building the Web API -- Building Applications and Modules -- Creating Controllers, Models, and Views -- Services -- Routing -- Details View -- A Custom MovieService -- Deleting Movies -- Editing and Creating Movies -- Summary -- Chapter 13 Dependency Injection -- Software Design Patterns -- Design Pattern: Inversion of Control -- Design Pattern: Service Locator -- Design Pattern: Dependency Injection -- Dependency Resolution in MVC -- Singly Registered Services in MVC -- Multiply Registered Services in MVC -- Arbitrary Objects in MVC -- Dependency Resolution in Web API.

Singly Registered Services in Web API -- Multiply Registered Services in Web API -- Arbitrary Objects in Web API -- Dependency Resolvers in MVC vs. Web API -- Summary -- Chapter 14 Unit Testing -- Understanding Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development -- Defining Unit Testing -- Defining Test-Driven Development -- Building a Unit Test Project -- Examining the Default Unit Tests -- Test Only the Code You Write -- Advice for Unit Testing Your ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API Applications -- Testing Controllers -- Testing Routes -- Testing Validators -- Summary -- Chapter 15 Extending MVC -- Extending Models -- Turning Request Data into Models -- Describing Models with Metadata -- Validating Models -- Extending Views -- Customizing View Engines -- Writing HTML Helpers -- Writing Razor Helpers -- Extending Controllers -- Selecting Actions -- Filters -- Providing Custom Results -- Summary -- Chapter 16 Advanced Topics -- Mobile Support -- Adaptive Rendering -- Display Modes -- Advanced Razor -- Templated Razor Delegates -- View Compilation -- Advanced View Engines -- Configuring a View Engine -- Finding a View -- The View Itself -- Alternative View Engines -- New View Engine or New ActionResult? -- Advanced Scaffolding -- Introducing ASP.NET Scaffolding -- Customizing Scaffold Templates -- Custom Scaffolders -- Advanced Routing -- RouteMagic -- Editable Routes -- Advanced Templates -- The Default Templates -- Custom Templates -- Advanced Controllers -- Defining the Controller: The IController Interface -- The ControllerBase Abstract Base Class -- The Controller Class and Actions -- Action Methods -- The ActionResult -- Action Invoker -- Using Asynchronous Controller Actions -- Summary -- Chapter 17 Real-World ASP.NET MVC: Building the NuGet.org Website -- May the Source Be with You -- WebActivator -- ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

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