Learn ASP.NET MVC

Use the following curated curriculum to get started or learn more about ASP.NET MVC. For additional and archived resources, please check these pages - Additional Tutorials, Additional Videos.

1. Getting Started

• Installation and Overview
• Tutorials
  • Your First ASP.NET MVC App
  • Music Store Tutorial App
• ASP.NET MVC Forum

2. What is MVC?

• ASP.NET MVC Overview
• MVC Project Structure

3. Controllers and Routing

• Controllers
  • Controller Basics
  • Models, Views, and Controllers
• Routing
  • ASP.NET MVC Routing Overview
  • ASP.NET Routing
  • URL Routing
• Filtering
  • Filtering in ASP.NET MVC

4. Views

• Introducing Razor
• Programming with Razor Syntax

5. Models (Data)

• Using Entity Framework (EF) Code First
  • Creating an EF Data Model
  • Basic CRUD Functionality
  • Sorting, Filtering, and Paging
  • A More Complex Data Model
  • Reading Related Data
  • Updating Related Data
  • Handling Concurrency
  • Implementing Inheritance
  • Repository & Unit of Work Patterns
  • Advanced Scenarios
• Using EF Database First
  • Creating Model Classes
• Implementing the Repository Pattern for TDD
  • Using TDD
• Common Validation Scenarios
  • Validating Data Using Attributes
  • Implementing Remote Validation
• ADO.NET Entity Framework

• 6. JavaScript

  • Using jQuery
    • Unobtrusive JavaScript
    • Unobtrusive Client Validation
  • Unobtrusive Ajax in ASP.NET MVC 3
  • Sending JSON to an Action Method
  • Adding Ajax to ASP.NET MVC
  • Adding Ajax to a Contacts Application
  • Microsoft Ajax CDN

  7. Security

  • Creating an Intranet Site
  • Using Forms Authentication

  8. Internationalization

  • Internationalization and Globalization
  • Validation for Non-English Locales

  9. Dependency Injection

  • TDD and Dependency Injection
  • ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location

  10. Unit Testing

  • TDD with ASP.NET MVC
  • Building Testable Applications
  • Mocks and Tests for Role-Based Objects

  11. Deployment

  • ASP.NET Deployment Content Map
    (see Web application projects)
  • Enabling IIS 7.x
  • Web Application Projects Deployment

  13. NuGet (Packages)

  • NuGet Overview
  • Installing a Package in Visual Studio
  • Creating a Package