• Windows XP or later with at least 2GB RAM
• Visual Studio 2008 or later with the latest service packs and ASP.NET MVC 1 or 2 installed
• SQL Server Express

ASP.NET MVC Training Customization

The content and schedule of this class can be customized for the customer based on their starting point, needs, and goals.

ASP.NET MVC Training Objectives

• Learn the basics of building a website using the ASP.NET MVC framework
• Understand the big ideas behind the framework, including the MVC pattern, testability, and separation of concerns
• Gain familiarity with the important extensibility points in the framework
• Get hands-on experience with the ASP.NET MVC framework so that lessons learned can be immediately applied after class

ASP.NET MVC Training Outline

• The Basics
• The MVC pattern meets ASP.NET
• Routes, controllers, actions and action results
• Views and the HtmlHelper class
• Using ViewData
• On building strongly-typed pages
• Hands-On: Building a simple form
• Introduction to Testing
• On writing unit tests
• The importance of the idea of dependency injection
• Using a mocking framework to make testing easier
• Model Binding, the View Model and Validation
• The role of the model binder
• Introducing the use of ViewModels
• Manual validation
• Using DataAnnotations for validation
• Creating custom validation attributes
• Hands-On: Building validation
• Focusing on MVC's UI Stack
• Using partial views
• Making new HtmlHelper extensions
• Hands-On: Creating a new HtmlHelper
• The extensibility of the ViewEngine
• Using the built-in template support in MVC 2
• Customizing the templates
• Templating with EditorFor() and DisplayFor()
• Hands-On: Customizing the templates
• Ajax, the AjaxHelper and jQuery
• Using the AjaxHelper to get data asynchronously
• Using the AjaxHelper to post data asynchronously
• Hands-On: Using the AjaxHelper
• Using jQuery to select elements from and to manipulate the DOM
• Using jQuery's ajax stack
• Using jQuery plugins
• Hands-On: Using jQuery
• Authentication and Authorization
• Basic authentication
• Controlling access via authorization
• Using Areas
• Miscellaneous
• Using T4 Templates to make building new forms easier
• Using AutoMapper to make ViewModels easier
• Hands-On Lab (remaining time exploring the framework through student experimentation)
• Conclusion