ASP.NET MVC 5 Essential Training

Course details

ASP.NET MVC is the tool of choice for building modern, dynamic, and scalable web applications. MVC 5 includes features that enable rapid, test-driven development. In this course, Jonathan "J." Tower teaches the essentials of the ASP.NET MVC 5 framework. Learn what models, views, and controllers are and how data is passed between them. See how controller classes and their action methods are used to organize your application's logic; how to use strongly typed models in your views; how to build models with Entity Framework; and how to create your own custom validation attributes. He also shows how to create and perform unit tests to ensure you build software that works the way it's supposed to.

Learning objectives
Creating a new ASP.NET MVC 5 project
Using controllers and action methods
Creating attribute routes
Strongly typed models
Building HTML with HtmlHelpers
Sharing views
Building models with Entity Framework
Unit testing code

Concepts

Introduction

Powerful web applications with MVC 5
What you should know
Tools used
Demo project overview

Getting Started with MVC 5

Model-view-controller (MVC) pattern
Advantages of MVC
Visual Studio new project dialog
Walking through the new project template
How MVC services requests
Startup configuration and global routing

Startup and Configuration

Handling events in Global.asax
App config with App Start

Controllers

Putting the pieces together
Using controllers and action methods
Returning a view response
Using other response helpers
Attribute routing
Advanced attribute routing

Filters

Securing your app with filters
Customizing your actions with filters
Altering action results with filters
Handling exceptions with filters

Views

View folder organized by convention
Razor - Transitioning from code to markup
Implicit explicit expressions and blocks
Adding comments to Razor
Handling form posts with IsPost
Passing data from the controller

Strongly Typed Models

Bringing models and views together
Building HTML with HTML Helpers
Advanced use of HTML Helpers
Define your own inline HTML Helpers
Creating custom HTML Helpers

Sharing Views

Sharing layouts
Using bundles and sections in layouts
Rendering partial views
Escaping the @ symbol

Models

Data models vs. view models
Building models with Entity Framework
Validation with data annotations
Validation with ModelState
Displaying validation in the view
Building custom validation attributes

Unit Testing

Testing a controller's selected view
Testing a controller's view data

Conclusion

Next steps