Professional ASP.NET MVC 5

Chapter 4Models

—by K. Scott Allen and Jon Galloway

What's In This Chapter?

• How to model the Music Store
• What it means to scaffold
• How to edit an album
• All about model binding

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at http://www.wrox.com/go/proaspnetmvc5 on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is contained in the file MvcMusicStore.C04.zip. This download contains the completed project for this chapter.

In the last chapter, you heard a bit about models in our discussion of strongly typed views. In this chapter, you'll learn about models in detail.

The word model in software development is overloaded to cover hundreds of different concepts. There are maturity models, design models, threat models, and process models. Sitting through a development meeting without talking about a model of one type or another is rare. Even when one scopes the term model to the context of the MVC design pattern, one can still debate the merits of having a business-oriented model object versus a view-specific model object. (You might remember this discussion from Chapter 3.)

This chapter talks about models as the objects you use to send information to the database, perform business calculations, and even render in a view. In other words, these objects represent the domain the application focuses on, and the models are the objects you want to display, save, create, update, and delete.

ASP.NET MVC 5 provides a number of tools and ...