Programming ASP.NET MVC Jess Chadwick, Todd Snyder, and Hrusikesh Panda Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Sebastopol • Tokyo Programming ASP.NET MVC by Jess Chadwick, Todd Snyder, and Hrusikesh Panda Copyright © 2012 Jess Chadwick, Todd Synder, Hrusikesh Panda All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com) For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com Editor: Rachel Roumeliotis Production Editor: Rachel Steely Copyeditor: Rachel Head Proofreader: Leslie Graham, nSight October 2012: Indexer: Lucie Haskins Cover Designer: Karen Montgomery Interior Designer: David Futato Illustrators: Robert Romano and Rebecca Demarest First Edition Revision History for the First Edition: 2012-09-14 First release See http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781449320317 for release details Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O’Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Programming ASP.NET MVC 4, the image of a scabbardfish, and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks Where those designations appear in this book, and O’Reilly Media, Inc., was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein ISBN: 978-1-449-32031-7 [LSI] 1347629749 Table of Contents Preface xiii Part I Up and Running Fundamentals of ASP.NET MVC Microsoft’s Web Development Platforms Active Server Pages (ASP) ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC The Model-View-Controller Architecture The Model The View The Controller What’s New in ASP.NET MVC 4? Introduction to EBuy Installing ASP.NET MVC Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application Project Templates Convention over Configuration Running the Application Routing Configuring Routes Controllers Controller Actions Action Results Action Parameters Action Filters Views Locating Views Hello, Razor! Differentiating Code and Markup 3 4 6 9 10 13 15 15 16 18 19 19 21 23 24 24 26 27 iii About the Authors Jess Chadwick is an independent software consultant specializing in web technologies He has more than a decade of development experience, ranging from embedded devices in start-ups to enterprise-scale web farms at Fortune 500s He is an ASPInsider, Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, and is an avid community member, frequently delivering technical presentations as well as leading the NJDOTNET Central New Jersey NET user group Jess lives in the Philadelphia, PA, area with his wonderful wife, baby daughter, and black lab Also contributing to this book are: Todd Snyder: Principle Consultant, Infragistics Hrusikesh Panda: Architect and RIA Specialist Colophon The animal on the cover of Programming ASP.NET MVC is the silver scabbardfish (Lepidopus caudatus) Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in color, giving rise to their name They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins, giving them an eel-like appearance, and large fang-like teeth They grow to over meters in length and reach kg in weight Their scaleless bodies are compressed and ribbon-like, and leave a silvery tint on anything with which they come into contact They have long sharp teeth along both jaws, and the lower jaw is very prominent The female lives longer than the male and is also bigger The silver scabbardfish forms schools and is a mesopelagic predator that primarily feeds on crustaceans (especially krill and decapods), small mollusks, and ray-finned fish such as lanternfish, boarfish, and herring Its major predators are sharks, hake, and squid This species is found as far down as 1,000 meters in both cold and warm waters around the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific They are so widespread in the Straits of Messina that they have given rise to a profession: the spadularu, or silver scabbardfish fisherman Their tastiness has earned them the name of “young lady of the seas” in the Messina dialect They are readily consumed (despite their ugly appearance) because of their soft, delicately flavored white meat and lack of scales The cover image is from Johnson’s Natural History The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSansMonoCondensed ... and Running Fundamentals of ASP. NET MVC Microsoft’s Web Development Platforms Active Server Pages (ASP) ASP. NET Web Forms ASP. NET MVC The Model-View-Controller... Architecture The Model The View The Controller What’s New in ASP. NET MVC 4? Introduction to EBuy Installing ASP. NET MVC Creating an ASP. NET MVC Application Project Templates Convention over Configuration... Programming ASP. NET MVC Jess Chadwick, Todd Snyder, and Hrusikesh Panda Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Sebastopol • Tokyo Programming ASP. NET MVC by Jess Chadwick, Todd