Developing MVC Applications with VB.NET

Overview:

ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technologies. MVC 2 enables developers to build dynamic, data-driven Web sites. Aspect Training's Developing MVC Applications with VB shows you how to use MVC 2. You'll learn both the theory behind MVC 2, as well as how to create a real-world application. Topics include transitioning from ASP.NET development, as well as an overview of related tools and technologies, including LINQ, jQuery, and REST.

Prerequisites:

Experience with developing ASP.NET applications

Course Topics:

MODEL-VIEW- CONTROLLER AND ASP.NET

What Is Model-View-Controller?

MVC on the Web Today

Serving Methods, Not Files

Is This Web Forms 4.0?

Why Not Web Forms?

Cost/Benefit of Web Forms

Should You Fear ASP.NET MVC?

ASP.NET > ASP.NET MVC

Abstraction: What Web Forms Does Well

Where Web Forms Doesn't Exactly Fit

ViewState

Back to Basics: ASP.NET MVC Believes…

Orchestration versus Composing

Separation of Concerns: What It Means

Approaches to Maintainability

Caring about Testability

Convention over Configuration

The Request Life Cycle

ROUTES AND URLS

Introduction to Routing

Defining Routes

Named Routes

Areas

Catch-All Parameter

Debugging Routes

How Routes Generate URLs

How Routes Tie Your URL to an Action

Route Extensibility

Using Routing with Web Forms

CONTROLLERS

History of the Controller

Defining the Controller

The ControllerBase Abstract Base Class

The Controller Class and Actions

Action Methods

Action Invoker

How an Action Is Mapped to a Method

Mapping Parameters

Invoking Actions

Using Asynchronous Controller Actions

VIEWS

What a View Does

What a View Shouldn't Do

Specifying a View

Strongly Typed Views

ViewModels

HTML Helper Methods

HTML Template Customization

The View Engine

Finding a View

The View Itself

AJAX

Ajax Examples

Handling Disabled Scripting

Using Partials for Rendering

Some Things You May Not Know about Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax

Updating an HTML Element When Submitting a Form

Implementing AutoComplete with Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax

Filtering Data with a Selectbox

The Modal Pop-Up with jQuery

The Rating Control

FILTERS

Filters Included with ASP.NET MVC

Exception Filter

Custom Filters

Writing a Custom Action Filter

Writing a Custom Authorization Filter

Writing a Custom Exception Filter

Filter Ordering

Filter Naming

SECURING YOUR APPLICATION

What Do Hackers Want?

How Do They Get It?

Weapons

Spam

Threat: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Threat: Cross-Site Request Forgery

Threat: Cookie Stealing

Threat: Over-Posting

Securing Your Controllers, Not Your Routes

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: WEB FORMS AND MVC TOGETHER

How Is It Possible?

Including MVC in Existing Web Forms Applications

Adding Web Forms to an Existing ASP.NET MVC Application

Using System.Web.Routing to Route to Web Forms

Sharing Data between Web Forms and MVC

Using Route Parameters

Using HTTP-POST

Using the ASP.NET Session

Using Cross-Page Posting

Using TempData

Migrating from Web Forms to MVC