This book is not an MVC intro book. This book is building a non-trivial app MVC! In this book Nick Beradi and Al Katawazi is transferring Marco Bellinaso's classic The Beerhouse app to MVC. And they do an okay job. You need this book if you don't know how to build a non-trivial app MVC, at the time of writing there is no other books as extensive as this, building a non-trivial app MVC, around. It is true that some parts of this book has been copied and pasted from the previous edition in a non-intelligent fashion. It's mostly the parts laying out the design of the app. For example on page 260 you get informed about the SPROCs of the app, but this app doesn't use SPROCs, that was previous edition! Anyway as said this copy and paste thing goes on in the design parts and it actually doesn't mean too much in the understanding of the book. It didn't bother me very much. The important thing is about the MVC implementation and in that respect the app and the book has been totally rewritten from scratch, and you get the info you need. One thing I was a little puzzled about is why Nick and Al didn't use the ModelState for validation, it seems to me that that would have been easier, and you can thereby put the actual validation in the objects themselves. Instead Nick and Al writes a custom validation using jQuery. But all in all a fine book. You need this book if you are a newbie and you are heading the MVC way! But pick one of the MVC intro books up before you embark on this book!
Author(s): Nick Berardi, Al Katawazi, Marco Bellinaso
Series: Wrox Programmer to Programmer
Publisher: Wrox
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 311
Wrox - ASP NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development (09-2009) (ATTiCA)......Page 1
About the Author......Page 12
Credits......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Contents......Page 18
Who This Book Is For......Page 22
What This Book Covers......Page 23
Conventions......Page 24
Errata......Page 25
p2p.wrox.com......Page 26
Design......Page 30
Solution......Page 35
Why EvenContact?......Page 51
Summary......Page 52
Design......Page 54
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Solution......Page 65
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Problem......Page 94
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Index......Page 292
