The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's
ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model
that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and
powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET.
ASP.NET MVC 4 contains a number of significant advances over previous
versions. New mobile and desktop templates (employing adaptive
rendering) are included together with support for jQuery Mobile for the
first time. New display modes allow your application to select views
based on the browser that's making the request while Code Generation
Recipes for Visual Studio help you auto-generate project-specific code
for a wide variety of situtations including NuGet support.
In this fourth edition, the core model-view-controller (MVC)
architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in
isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You'll work through an
extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that
combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and
unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical
experience, you'll discover MVC's strengths and weaknesses for
yourself--and put your best-learned theory into practice.
The book's authors, Steve Sanderson and Adam Freeman, have both
watched the growth of ASP.NET MVC since its first release. Steve is a
well-known blogger on the MVC Framework and a member of the Microsoft
Web Platform and Tools team. Adam started designing and building web
applications 15 years ago and has been responsible for some of the
world's largest and most ambitious projects. You can be sure you are in
safe hands.
