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by Patrick Desjardins (Author)
This book is a melting pot of several articles about Asp.Net MVC, Entity Framework, JavaScript, CSS, C# and SQL. They are scenarios that happen in the everyday work of developers who use these technologies. They are divided into short articles that are easy to understand. This book is ideal for anyone with intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft web stack and who wants to learn more about how to deal with practical cases. Subjects vary, from how to use the Model Binding to how to update complex objects with Entity Framework. This book includes articles written during 2011 and 2012. It is volume 1 of a series of books that will be out in the future. I strongly believe that the content of this book is a must to anyone who works with Microsoft Asp.Net in enterprise.
Here are some subjects discussed in the book:
- Asp.Net MVC ModelBinding
- Asp.Net MVC Sections
- Templates with Editor and Display
- C# Sealed Method
- .Net Transaction
- How to handle circular references with Entity Framework
- Managing connection pool with EF
- Creating HTML Extensions
- Difference between CSS displays
- What to use between view data, view bag and temp data
- Caching
- Proxy creation with Entity Framework
- EF object context life cycle
- Working with 404 errors
- Using resource file
- Session and http handler
- Dynamic JavaScript and CSS with Asp.Net controller
- Master page
- Compare linq collection
- Html 5 and Internet Explorer
- NDepend
- Localizing property
- Logging with Entity Framework
- Expression
- CGI extension with IIS
- Contants
- Cookies
- Foreign key and MSMS
- Ajax call for partial view
- Anonymous object
- ILSpy
- Performance counter
- Debugging Asp.Net MVC
- ModelState
- MvcHtmlString
- Asp.Net action name
- Best practices for developing enterprise Asp.Net MVC website
Author Biography
Patrick Desjardins is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Asp.Net since 2013. He has studied software engineering and he is known for his analysis, resourcefulness, and abilities to find effective solutions quickly. Since his early professional career, his focus has always been to keep up to date in order to provide quality services to meet customers' needs. Patrick is a professional who has a well-developed work ethic and who has the desire to perform both in quality and timeliness. His area of interest is Web development, which he embraced since the early 2000s. For many years Patrick has continued to train daily in new technologies and apply all theories learned to various projects. Patrick is a huge fan about Microsoft technologies' .Net which he used to develop professionally since 2004. By contrast, since 2002 he developed in PHP many projects that make him someone with multiple perspectives on how the web can be developed. His main focus is to help people to embrace Microsoft technology in an enterprise environment. He is a strong believer in Asp.Net MVC and Entity Framework to help create quality websites for professionals that follow good standards with Html5, CSS3 and design patterns.
