Chapter 9. Customizing and extending ASP.NET MVC

 

This chapter covers
  • Data templates and HTML helpers
  • Action filters
  • Custom model binders
  • Search engine optimization of routing

 

Chapter 8 introduced you to the pillars of ASP.NET MVC: controllers, views, models, and routing. These concepts are the basic ones you have to master to start writing applications with this new web development platform. But when we move to real-world contexts, things tend to get a bit more complicated.

So far, you’ve learned a lot. You know how to handle a web request by using an appropriate combination of a controller, a model, and a view, but in more complex scenarios, these notions alone aren’t usually enough. In fact, enterprise-level applications are often ...

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