ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution

Perfectly suited to the innovative Problem ? Design ? Solution approach, ASP.NET MVC is a new development model that separates code for the data, look, and business processes of a Web site. This nuts-and-bolts guide thoroughly covers creating a Web site with MVC and discusses solving the most common problems that you may encounter when creating your first application or trying to upgrade a current application. The material is based on the highly praised and widely used ?TheBeerHouse? ASP.NET Starter Kit that was developed in the bestselling ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem?Design?Solution. Additional coverage includes registration and membership systems and user-selectable themes; content management systems for articles and photos; polls, mailing lists, and forums; e-commerce stores, shopping carts, and order management with real-time credit card processing, and more.

ASP.NET MVC integrates powerful new functionality that enables you to create ASP.NET sites based on the important Model-View-Controller pattern. Beyond just understanding the key MVC benefits and coding techniques, you''ll see how to implement the ASP.NET MVC pattern to build a complete real-world site.

Based on Marco Bellinaso''s classic TheBeerHouse ASP.NET 2.0 site example, each chapter presents a business requirement for the site, a roadmap for designing a solution, and the code for implementing the features. By the end of the book, you''ll have a complete functional site and the skills to build your own ASP.NET MVC content and e-commerce site.

What you will learn from this book

• Techniques for building a flexible, easily configurable, and instrumented site

• How to use jQuery to enhance and extend the capabilities of your ASP.NET MVC site

• How to design a module to manage articles, news, and blog posts

• Tips for creating and managing multiple polls on your site

• Ways to build a robust newsletter system for e-mail newsletters on a background thread

• How to develop a Web 2.0 community-centric forum from scratch

• Steps for adding a working e-commerce store based on PayPal

• All the different ways to deploy an ASP.NET MVC site

Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who are familiar with the basic concepts of web development and ASP.NET. Code examples are shown using C#.

Wrox Problem - Design - Solution references give you solid, workable solutions to real-world development problems. Each is devoted to a single application, analyzing every problem, examining relevant design issues, and implementing the ideal solution.

Nick Berardi is the owner of Managed Fusion (www.managedfusion.com), a U.S.-based company that specializes in the fields of software architecture/development, usability engineering, and cloud-based computing initiatives with a strong focus on .NET, the Web, SEO, SEM, and Microsoft technologies.

Al Katawazi is owner of Blue Shift Technologies Inc. (www.blueshifttechnologies.com), a software consulting company based out of Upstate New York. He is very fortunate to have worked on a variety of different projects for many notable clients. Most recently his focus has been on creating SaaS-based solutions leveraging the MVC framework. Al is also the author of his own blog (www.codingsmarter.com), which he has tried to keep up to date even though writing a book is a great excuse not to. When Al is not programming he enjoys kayaking with his dog Scout and card sharking with his wife Heather.

Marco Bellinaso lives in Bologna, Italy, and works as a freelance consultant, developer, and trainer specialized in all "web-things" that run on the Microsoft platform, such as ASP.NET, AJAX, and SharePoint. He's been working with the .NET Framework since the Beta 1 on applications of all types, including Web Services, Windows Forms, Windows Services, and mobile applications. He is also author or co-author of a number of commercial tools for developers, such as the VB Migration Partner (http://www.vbmigration.com/), the award-winning VBMaximizer add-in, CodeBox for .NET, and FormMaximizer for .NET.