Pro ASP.NET MVC 4, Fourth Edition

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ASP.NET MVC 4 in Detail

So far, you've learned about why the ASP.NET MVC Framework exists and have gained an understanding of its architecture and underlying design goals. You've taken it for a good, long test-drive by building a realistic e-commerce application. Now it's time to open the hood and expose the full details of the framework's machinery.

In Part 2 of this book, we'll look at the details. We'll start with an exploration of the structure of an ASP.NET MVC application and the way that requests are processed. We then focus on individual features, such as routing (Chapters 13 and 14), controllers and actions (Chapters 15-17), the MVC view and helper system (Chapters 18-21), and the way that MVC works with domain models ( ...