Pro ASP .NET MVC3 Framework

Pro ASP .NET MVC3 Framework
By Adam Freeman and Steven Sanderson
Published by Apress
ISBN 978-1-4302-3404-3

ASP .NET MVC has been around since March 2009 when 1.0 was released, but it has only been very recently that there has been a significant take-up, with seemingly everybody wanting to get into using it.

This has naturally spurred a number of publishers into bringing out books on the subject, and I believe the best of these at the moment is this offering from Apress.

The principles of MVC are very straightforward, and support within Visual Studio is such that you can get useful functionality up and running very quickly while writing little or no code. Obviously, though, you are soon going to need to go far beyond what the the wizards can do for you, and to require a much deeper understanding of the technology. This book is an ideal companion for your journey into MVC, intially taking you through the basics and VS Wizards I mentioned above, and then going into more detail on topics such as routing, controllers and actions, views, AJAX and security.

MVC3 introduced Razor, a dialect of C# used within views to generate and format content, and this book also covers Razor in depth.

This is one of Apress's "Pro" branded books and therefore aimed at experienced developers looking to expand their expertise, but the style and content are by no means heavy-going so anybody within the book's target audience will find it brings them up to speed reasonably quickly and without too much hassle.

MVC4 RC was released on 31 May 2012, and the next edition of this book is flagged by Apress for release on October 14, 2012.