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

0. Introduction

01 - Powerful web applications with MVC 5
02 - What you should know
03 - Tools used
04 - Demo project overview

1. Getting Started with MVC 5

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

2. Startup and Configuration

11 - Handling events in Global.asax
12 - App config with App Start

3. Controllers

13 - Putting the pieces together
14 - Using controllers and action methods
15 - Returning a view response
16 - Using other response helpers
17 - Attribute routing
18 - Advanced attribute routing

4. Filters

19 - Securing your app with filters
20 - Customizing your actions with filters
21 - Altering action results with filters
22 - Handling exceptions with filters

5. Views

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

6. Strongly Typed Models

29 - Bringing models and views together
30 - Building HTML with HTML Helpers
31 - Advanced use of HTML Helpers
32 - Define your own inline HTML Helpers
33 - Creating custom HTML Helpers

7. Sharing Views

34 - Sharing layouts
35 - Using bundles and sections in layouts
36 - Rendering partial views
37 - Escaping the @ symbol

8. Models

38 - Data models vs. view models
39 - Building models with Entity Framework
40 - Validation with data annotations
41 - Validation with ModelState
42 - Displaying validation in the view
43 - Building custom validation attributes

9. Unit Testing

44 - Testing a controller's selected view
45 - Testing a controller's view data

Conclusion

46 - Next steps