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An Outstanding Author Team Presents The Ultimate Wrox Guide To Asp.net Mvc 4 Microsoft Insiders Join Giants Of The Software Development Community To Offer This In-depth Guide To Asp.net Mvc, An Essential Web Development Technology. Experienced .net And Asp.net Developers Will Find All The Important Information They Need To Build Dynamic, Data-driven Websites With Asp.net And The Newest Release Of Microsoft's Model-view-controller Technology. Featuring Step-by-step Guidance And Lots Of Code Samples, This Guide Gets You Started And Moves All The Way To Advanced Topics, Using Plenty Of Professional Asp.net Mvc 4; Contents; Chapter 1: Getting Started; A Quick Introduction To Asp.net Mvc; How Asp.net Mvc Fits In With Asp.net; The Mvc Pattern; Mvc As Applied To Web Frameworks; The Road To Mvc 4; Asp.net Mvc 1 Overview; Asp.net Mvc 2 Overview; Asp.net Mvc 3 Overview; Mvc 4 Overview; Asp.net Web Api; Enhancements To Default Project Templates; Mobile Project Template Using Jquery Mobile; Display Modes; Bundling And Minification; Included Open Source Libraries; Miscellaneous Features; Open Source Release; Creating An Mvc 4 Application; Software Requirements For Asp.net Mvc 4 Installing Asp.net Mvc 4installing The Mvc 4 Development Components; Installing Mvc 4 On A Server; Creating An Asp.net Mvc 4 Application; The New Asp.net Mvc 4 Dialog; Application Templates; View Engines; Testing; The Mvc Application Structure; Asp.net Mvc And Conventions; Convention Over Configuration; Conventions Simplify Communication; Summary; Chapter 2: Controllers; The Controller's Role; A Sample Application: The Mvc Music Store; Controller Basics; A Simple Example: The Home Controller; Writing Your First Controller; Creating The New Controller; Writing Your Action Methods A Few Quick Observations Parameters In Controller Actions; Summary; Chapter 3: Views; The Purpose Of Views; Specifying A View; Viewdata And Viewbag; Strongly Typed Views; View Models; Adding A View; Understanding The Add View Dial