Chapter 8. Introducing ASP.NET MVC

 

This chapter covers
  • Anatomy of the Model-View-Controller pattern
  • Building your first page with ASP.NET MVC
  • The routing infrastructure
  • How to receive user input and validate it

 

ASP.NET, and specifically Web Forms, is an awesome technology for building software for the World Wide Web. When Microsoft introduced it back in 2002, it represented an absolute break from the past. It became possible to program for the web platform with a high-level infrastructure that provided abstractions typical of a smart client environment, like holding state across multiple requests or adopting an event-driven approach to handle what was going on with the UI.

ASP.NET grew in popularity in the developer community until ...

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