I'm checking out ASP.NET MVC RC2. Is the API documentation completely missing? I should be able to find something by hitting F1, right?
Although I've been developing with ASP.NET MVC for about a year, I haven't seen any formal documentation personally. The best kind of documentation you are going to find is in screencasts and blogs. Check out Stephen Walther's MVC blog, Rob Conery's MVC Storefront project/adventure, and, of course, http://asp.net/mvc. There's also a very promising book coming out.
I don't think you're going to find any kind of reference book or MSDN docs at this point. You'll probably have to wait for RTM.
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I've seen many items dealing with Mvc but I can't find actual documentation from Microsoft. If someone could point me at it, that would be great.
This is the link with the Microsoft ASP .NET MVC documentation.
MSDN documentation could be very helpful also when developing .NET stuff.
has someone put together a decent discussion board/forums based on ASP.NET MVC or MVC2?
A simple solution would be good enough.
Preferable something which integrates into an existing site.
Any hints?
Have you checked out Codeplex?
http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=mvc%20forum&ac=8
Near forums - ASP.NET MVC forum engine
OpenForum - MVC Forum
Cool Forum - ok this one isn't released yet.
I am trying to figure out how to use ASP.NET MVC and it seems the only way to learn it is through reading blog posts. Scott Gu and Phil Haak are the two that come to mind. The problem I am running into is that alot of the documentation they write is relevant at the time and doesn't work in the latest versions.
Is there a place that has the documentation for RC only? What are the best places to look for documentation on MVC RC?
Maybe this helps: http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/01/27/a-guide-to-learning-asp.net-mvc-release-candidate-1.aspx
I've found a few pages (some that even link to a number of other pages) on the Microsoft website that I bookmarked last night for reading today, but I'm curious as to other good non-Microsoft resources for discussing ASP.NET web applications, both Forms and MVC (including comparisons/contrasts between the two).
Keep your eye out on the MVC forums, read up on blogs:
Phil Haack
Scott Hanselman
Rob Conery
Simone Chiarretta
Derik Whittaker
Me :)
Jeremy Skinner
Torkel Odegaard
Steve Sanderson
There's a ton of people blogging about it. Also, check out some of the open source projects that are using it:
MvcContrib
Code Camp Server
Kigg
There's a bunch of books coming out:
Pro ASP.NET MVC by Steve Sanderson
Programming ASP.NET MVC by Alex Horovitz
Beginning ASP.NET MVC by Simone Chiaretta
Professional ASP.NET MVC by Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery
ASP.NET MVC in Action by myself, Jeffrey Palermo, and Jimmy Bogard
I think you can guess which one I
recommend most :). Our book has an
early access program that allows you
to download PDFs as they're written.
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Any thing else I should add to this list? I'm marked it as community wiki.
As a first port of call, I would use a social bookmarking network site, such as Delicious, to get a list of popular/tagged posts and sites:
ASP.NET MVC tagged bookmarks
Popular ASP.NET MVC bookmarks
Phil Haack's blog seems to be a good source. He's an insider and can tell you the tricks there are to know. In the end it all depends on how you prefer to learn - some people like videos, others prefer books. For me the best way is to learn by doing it. So take a look at Phil, go to CodePlex and find a project that uses ASP.NET MVC and look at the code. That way you'll also see how people solved their problems and what practices they followed, not only learn the rules of the framework.
Does anybody know of an up to date tutorial on using Ajax with ASP.net MVC? Most of what I can find seems to talk about older versions of MVC and I suspect that this is an area where there has been a lot of change of late.
Stephen Walter just blogged about this:
http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/09/22/asp-net-mvc-application-building-forums-6-ajax.aspx
Stephen Walter's post "ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #6 – Ajax" seems to be focused on Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX.
A quick search on google for "ASP.NET MVC jquery" brings up several resources on non-MS javascript.
I lean towards the non-MS AJAX demos & tutorials as they show platform-agnostic patterns and practices.
If you're looking for form-releated Ajax support in MVC, check out Scott Hanselman's post:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCPreview4UsingAjaxAndAjaxForm.aspx
It seems there isn't currently good support for end-to-end validation with Ajax forms. Most articles I've read use a combination of a client-side library and server-side data annotations. I'm hoping the full beta release of MVC will include better support.
Also, be sure to note that Microsoft will be including jQuery as an officially supported library for Ajax development. Scott Guthrie annoinced this at:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx