Hey there everyone. I was recently tasked to pitch a book to my publisher. As a first step I need to come up with an outline for the Table of Contents. This book is the standard cookbook style with an added focus on the MVC side of ASP.NET. I have been poking about at other similarly styled books to get some ideas. I think comparing ASP.NET Web Forms to ASP.NET MVC would provide some folks with a good reference point when looking at the two ways of doing things.
(Thanks to my friend James Shaw for this idea.made my life easier)
Below is what I have some up with so far. Can you please take a quick look to make sure I haven't missed anything? Perhaps more important than missing a topic.am I including too much? Feel free to contact me directly with any comments at asiemer@hotmail.com or leave a comment below.
Thanks!
1. Working with the View
1. Discovering the problems of a non-strongly typed view
2. Creating a strongly typed view
3. Working with a ViewModel
4. How to use strongly typed input builders
5. Create a custom input builder
6. Consolidating view code into a partial view
7. Using the Spark view engine
8. Using the FubuMVC view engine
9. Exposing a view that returns an image
10. Creating a JSON result
11. Consuming a JSON view
12. Exposing a view that returns a PDF
2. Actions
3. Controllers
4. Routes
5. Master Pages
1. How to create a master page
2. Controlling which master page is used with a custom base page
3. Working with Spark View Engine master pages
6. Working with data in the view
1. Reintroducing for and foreach
2. Displaying data from an xml file
3. Displaying an array as a group of check boxes
4. Displaying an array as a group of radio buttons
5. Creating a page-able set of data
6. How to sort data
7. Navigating to a specific page of data
8. Deleting a record from a data set
9. Adding a javascript delete confirmation pop-up
10. Adding a modal window delete confirmation pop-up
11. Displaying a modal window to show a records details
12. Adding a totals row to the bottom of a set of data
13. Using the free telerik grid
7. Working with Forms
1. Posting a form to the appropriate action
2. Setting the field tab order
3. Setting a default button
8. MVC and templating
1. Plugging in a new skin from the template gallery
2. Using T4 to create strongly typed helpers
3. Using T4MVC to destroy magic strings
4. Creating a view template
9. Validation Recipes
1. Validating with Data Annotation Validators
2. Reporting validation errors with ViewData.ModelState
3. Using Html.ValidationMessage to display validation errors
4. Summarizing validation errors with Html.ValidationSummary
5. Using the xVal validation framework
6. Using Castle Validator for validation
7. Client side validation with JQuery Validation
8. Making a required field
9. Setting an acceptable range
10. Requiring the password and password verification fields to match
11. Using a regex pattern to validate data
12. Forcing a choice to be made in a drop down menu
10. Managing large applications with Areas
1. Creating a separate project as an area
2. Creating an area in the same project
3. Using areas to manage segments of your site
4. Creating portable areas to compartmentalize functionality
11. Maintaining state
1. Working with application wide information
2. Maintaining a user's information during their session
3. Using cookies to remember a user
4. Managing state in a web farm scenario using SQL Server
12. Error Handling
1. Handling errors in your code
2. Handling errors for a view
3. Handling errors in your application
4. Showing friendly error information
5. Using Error Logging Modules and Handlers (ELMAH) to deal with unhandled exceptions
6. Reporting caught exceptions to ELMAH
13. Security
1. Using membership and roles to manage users
2. Using windows authentication
3. Restricting access to all pages
4. Restricting access to selected pages
5. Restricting access to pages by role
6. Restricting access to a controller
7. Restricting access to a selected area
14. Profiles and Themes
1. Using profiles
2. Inheriting a profile
3. Using an migrating anonymous profiles
4. Managing user profiles
5. Using themes
6. User personalized themes
15. Configuration
1. Adding custom application settings in web.config
2. Displaying custom error messages
3. Maintaining session state across multiple web servers
4. Accessing other web.config configuration elements
5. Adding your own configuration elements to web.config
6. Encrypting web.config sections
16. Tracing and Debugging
1. Uncovering page level problems
2. Uncovering application wide problems
3. Writing trace data to the event log
4. Sending trace data via email
5. Using a breakpoint to stop execution of an application when a condition is met
17. Caching
1. Caching a whole page
2. Caching pages based on route details
3. Caching pages based on browser type and version
4. Caching pages based on developer defined custom strings
5. Caching partial pages
6. Caching application data
7. Caching object data
8. Installing MemCached Win32 as an alternate cache provider
9. Using the MemCached Enyim client to cache application data
10. Installing Microsoft Velocity
11. Using Velocity to cache application data
18. Localizing your application
1. Providing multiple language support
2. Using resource files to manage display data
3. Managing currency display based on selected language
19. HTTP Handlers and Modules
1. Tracking access to your resources with an HTTP Handler
2. Create a file download HTTP Handler
3. Control leeching of your resources with an HTTP Module
20. Making ASP.NET even more powerful
1. Making controllers testable by implementing a ControllerFactory
2. Implementing inversion of control with StructureMap
3. Install MVC Turbine and write less code
4. Creating testable views
5. Creating testable controllers