ASP.NET MVC in Action

Chapter 13. Recipes

This chapter covers

• Implementing jQuery autocomplete text box

• Configuring automatic client-side validation

• Using NHibernate for data access

• Integrating the Spark view engine

By now you have seen all of the components of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Surely you have asked yourself, How do I do ____ in ASP.NET MVC? Certainly with a new paradigm it’s natural to feel a bit lost when trying to implement functionality in your first application. This chapter is geared toward giving you concrete examples, or recipes, for achieving common functions such as automatic validation or data access. Take these examples verbatim and use them in your applications, or simply learn from them and apply the techniques in your own way. We start with client-side ...