In this course, you will learn all about ASP.NET MVC, the various pieces and components that can be extended or customized, and how to leverage those pieces to build your own application framework. You’ll learn about concepts such as editor and display templates, layouts, building custom helpers, action filters, data annotations, and more. After a thorough introduction to application frameworks concepts, you will see how to craft your own optimized infrastructure for your applications. You’ll learn how to create your own HTML helpers, action results, data annotations, and action filters, as well as how to customize and extend larger subsystems such as model metadata providers, model binders, view engines, and dependency resolvers. You will learn how the baked-in conventions can be customized, enriched with additional conventions, or completely overwritten with whatever best fits your day-to-day needs. By the end of the course, you will know how to bend ASP.NET MVC 5 to maximize your productivity.
Author Name: Matt Honeycutt
Author Description:
Matt Honeycutt is a software architect specializing in ASP.NET web applications, particularly ASP.NET MVC. He has over a decade of experience in building (and testing!) web applications. He’s an avid practitioner of Test-Driven Development, creating both the SpecsFor and SpecsFor.Mvc frameworks. He has served as the lead developer on numerous multi-million dollar software projects and enjoys finding elegant solutions to difficult problems. As life-long learner, Matt remains dedicated to expan… more

Table of Contents

• What Is an “Application Framework?”
  14mins
• The Power of an Inversion of Control Container
  61mins
• Optimize Your Controller Layer
  42mins
• Optimize Your View Layer
  43mins
• Optimize Your JavaScript
  43mins