Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 1st Edition

This book is not watered down...it contains plenty of code and a good overview of how to effectively use ASP.NET MVC. There were some topics I was having trouble with, and now they make much more sense after reading this book. It stuck a little bit too much to Ninject, and it would have been nice to see a little more overview of the alternatives, but it definitely filled in some of the gaps from other books. I would not recommend it as your only source, but this, coupled with another one or two more advanced books have really filled in the MVC puzzle for me.My main gripe is that this book didn't come out BEFORE the pro book! I think I would have understood it much better if I had read this book first. But, I understand that early adopters tend to be more 'pros' than 'beginners', which is why the pro books, in general, seem to come out first.

good book

This is the same product that I requested and it was in very good conditions. It didn't take too long to get to my address.

I have just finished reading this book and I find that has been written very well, in very easy way to read, with and many examples that guide the readers step by step through all the chapters of the book.It was easy for me to learn MVC on ASP.NET by the case study and and exercises.I think that It's one of the best books to learn MVC ASP.NET. Great book really.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about ASP.NET MVC.This book is more oriented towards the ASP.NET WebForms programmer who are trying to make the transition toASP.NET MVC way of programming. Having said that anyone - even those who have not done ASP.NET WebFormsprogramming - can understand the concept and can get going. The book explains things gradually step by step sothat any body can understand it. The book also contains "Try it out" sessions where the sources are givenfirst and then explained later by highlighted code. The highlighted code reinforce the new concepts we justgot introduced to. The book also provides exercises to do at the end of each chapter and the solutions areprovided in Appendix B in case you are struck with your solution. In short this book covers everything a MVCbeginner programmer needs to know.Sometimes I wish the authors are precise and not very eloborate - but I guess the authors wanted to make surethat the beginner gets the concepts right and so were very eloborate.

Summary and structure of the book.The book has 19 chapters plus a couple of appendixes. Each chapter covers a specific argument. At the end of each chapter there is always a section for the exercises and a summary section. The first thing you will like about this book is the huge amount of sample code!At the end of the book there is the appendix B that contains all the solutions related to each exercise, so you won't get lost.The appendix A has a lot of useful links that you can follow, resources, links, books and more.Finally there is the index that is done for a "dev" reader. It's not a normal index but an index divided by alphabetic order that includes also all those components and "code" that you will find in the book. So you will find, for example, the page that talks about "NHibernate".Case studies.What I really liked about this book is the 2 case studies that you will find at the end. Simone has created these 2 case studies that will reflect 2 real solutions, one is a blog and the second one is ... a surprise. I am not going to tell you everything because you must buy it. [;)]This is something really well done as you will apply all the knowledge you got through the book into 2 real solutions!Chapters.Of course I am not going to describe each chapter, but this is the list of chapters so you can understand why this book is so well done, IMHO:MVC patternWebForm VS MVCGetting startedThe modelThe controllerThe viewRoutingUnite test conceptsTesting ASP.NET MVCComponentsAction filtersAJAXDeploymentLeveraging ASP.NET WebForm futuresAuthentication and authorizationExtend ASP.NET MVCMigrating from ASP.NETCase studiesResourcesExercises solutionsFinal Considerations.I am a NET developer, most of time I develop Silverlight/WPF or WinForm applications. For fun I did a couple of ASP.NET MVC applications in the bank where I was working before, but my knowledge about ASP.NET MVC was relative to those projects.Now that I got this book, I was able to read all the aspect of MVC pattern applied to ASP.NET and I feel comfortable to build a real application with this framework.I did a real ASP.NET MVC application for the Company where I am working now, and I was able to do everything is less than 1 week, including the use of JQuery and AJAX.I am really satisfied of this book and I hope that you will buy it as it is a very nice and well written book that will drive you inside this pretty cool framework.

Thought this might be useful as a start for MVC, but it is too out of date now. There are better newer books.