Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC Migration

Chapter 2

Creating the ASP.NET MVC 4 Project

EXERCISES AND EXAMPLES

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Modifying the _Layout.cshtml to get a nice “somewhat” unique look and feel
• Adding the methods required to list the blogs from the XML RSS file on the Home Index.cshtml page using Razor
• Adding the Html.ActionLinks (C# Fundamentals, .NET Fundamentals, Advanced C#, and so on), and corresponding models, views, and controllers
• Creating a local test SQL Server database called Blogs
• Implementing NHibernate into the ASP.NET MVC 4 application
• Creating the BlogNavBar partial view and add to a web page
• Creating the Archive List, custom MapRoute and ViewData containers
• Migrating a blog entry from ASP.NET with feedback form and comment list

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the Wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at www.wrox.com/go/azureaspmvcmigration on the Download Code tab. It is recommended that you download the code, review it so that you have a good understanding of what is about to be discussed. The steps in this chapter required to migrate the sample ASP.NET 2.0 website located at http://aspnet.thebestcsharpprogrammerintheworld.com to an ASP.NET MVC 4 application are provided in detail.

The initial approach for this chapter was to make the ASP.NET MVC 4 application have the same look and feel as the ASP.NET 2.0 website. But after spending some hours doing this, I made the decision to use the default template because: for one, it is different, but mostly because the whole intent ...