Advanced MVC3

Advanced ASP.NET MVC3

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Who am I?

Hattan ShobokshiSenior Software Engineer

www.hattanshobokshi.comhattan@gmail.com

http://speakerrate.com/hattan

Goals for this talk

•Brief Overview of new features

• Introduce MVC3 & MVC3 Tools Update

•MVC3 DEMO

•Scaffolding

•Logging

•Glimpse

•Telerik MVC Grid

•Navigation Demo

•QA

MVC3? MVC3 Tools Update?

MVC3 Released January 13th 2011

*Update to the MVC runtime

* Introduction of many new features

*NuGet

MVC3 Tools update released April 12th 2011

*Update to Visual Studio Tooling

*Updates included libraries

*Adds new libraries

*Does NOT change the MVC3 dll.

MVC3

New Features in ASP.NET MVC3

*New Razor View Engine* Dynamic View Models

* Client-Side Validation Enabled by Default

* JSON Model Binding Support

* Tooling Improvements (Project & View Dialog)

* Global Filters

*Model Validation Improvements.

* Request Validation Granularity

* Enhanced Dependency Injection Support

* Unobtrusive JQuery Ajax/Validation

* New ASP.NET Web Pages helper methods

* HTML Helpers Support HTML 5 Style attributes

* New ActionResult Types

Skills Transfer

MVC3 Tools Update

New Features in Tools Update *Does NOT upgrade MVC3 runtime!

*Intranet Project Template

*HTML 5 Semantic Markup

*Full Controller/View Scaffolding

*Jquery and JS Libraries are Nuget Packages

*Modernizer

*EF Code First pre-installed

Razor

*A new view Engine for ASP.NET MVC

*Clean and Concise Syntax. Fluid Workflow.

*Is NOT a new Language. Use existing C# and VB skills

*Unit Testable WITHOUT a Web Server or ASP.NET Runtime

*All Existing HTML Helpers work. Even Third Party helpers

Razor Syntax

Code blocks start with @ symbol. No end symbol required ( %>)

Web Forms Engine:

<h3> <%: Model.Name %> </h3>

Razor:

<h3> @Model.Name </h3>

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducing-razor.aspx

http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/tutorials/2-introduction-to-asp-net-web-programming-using-the-razor-syntax

Razor Syntax

DEMO

MVCScaffolding Demo

Logging!

*ELMAHError Logging Modules and Handlers

*Logging of nearly all unhandled exceptions.

*Web page to remotely view the entire log of recoded exception

*Email Notification

Glimpse

GetGlimpse.com

Telerik Grid Control

*http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/

* Grid Control

*Out of the box support for Sorting, Filtering

*Out of the box paging support

*Out of the box ajax support

*Very little javascript you have to write!

Navigation Demo

What did we just talk about?

•Brief Overview of new features

• Introduce MVC3 & MVC3 Tools Update

•MVC3 DEMO

• Scaffolding

• Logging

•Glimpse

• Telerik MVC Grid

•Navigation Demo

•QA

Thank you!