ASP.NET MVC 2

This Wrox Blox is for .NET developers who already have experience developing web applications with ASP.NET MVC and want to learn the new features introduced in the new release of ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC 2 has been built with the goal to increase productivity and make ASP.NET MVC ready for enterprise development. This Wrox Blox guides the reader through the new features by explaining how to use data scaffolding and automatic validation, how to write custom validators, how to create multi-area projects, and how and when to use async controllers. It also covers the new automatic HTML Encoding feature introduced in ASP.NET 4 and how it helps increasing the security of ASP.NET MVC web applications.   In addition, it provides examples built both with Visual Studio 2010 and with the still supported Visual Studio 2008.


 Table of Contents




 Introducing ASP.NET MVC 2 1




Runs on Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 2




Templated Helpers and Model Metadata 2




HiddenInputAttribute 5



How to Write Custom Templates 7



Validation 8



Client-Side Validation 10



Custom Validation Rules 10




Areas 15



Asynchronous Controllers 18




Why Asynchronous Operations Matter 18



The Anatomy of an Asynchronous Controller 18



How to Implement an Async Controller 19



When to Use an Async Controller 21




RenderAction and Child Actions 22



Strongly Typed UI Helpers 24



Enhancements to ModelBinders 25




Default Value 25



Increasing Security with HTTPS 26



Avoiding the JSON Array Attack 26



Short Notation for AcceptVerbs Attribute 27



Overriding the HTTP Verb 27



Binary Binding 28




Automatic HTML-Encoding 29



Enhanced Visual Studio Tooling 30



Summary 31



About Simone Chiaretta 32




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