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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

By : Andy Meadows
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

By: Andy Meadows

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET MVC 4 framework is used to build scalable web applications with the help of design patterns and .NET Framework. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a design principle which separates the components of a web application. This separation helps you to modify, develop, and test different components of a web application. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development helps you to develop next generation applications, while guiding you to deal with the constraints the mobile web places on application development. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with all the aspects of mobile app development. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development introduces you to developing mobile web apps using the ASP.NET MVC 4 framework. Walking you through the process of creating a homebrew recipe sharing application, this book teaches you the fundamentals and concepts relevant to developing Internet-ready mobile-enabled web apps. Through the sample application, you will learn how to secure your apps against XSS and CSRF attacks, open up your application to users using third party logins such as Google or Facebook, and how to use Razor, HTML 5, and CSS 3 to create custom views and content targeting mobile devices. Using these custom views, you will then learn how to create web apps with a native mobile device feel using jQuery mobile. By the end of the book, you will be presented with a set of challenges to prove to yourself that you now have the skills to extend your existing web applications to the mobile web or create new mobile web apps.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Separating Functionality Using Routes and Areas
Index

Chapter 8. Validating User Input

Never trust data provided to your app by an outside source. How many times have you heard this? Yet, time and again, we learn of new and exciting ways for hackers to penetrate applications, operating systems, and even entire networks. While it is true most common languages protect you from stalwart exploits such as buffer overrun attacks, the new breed of connected web apps has brought with it a new breed of exploits.

In this chapter, we will take a look at using the data validation attributes found in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace to validate data submitted to our app. We will then look at the tools provided to us by the ASP.NET MVC 4 framework used to help prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

At the end of this chapter you really need to remember only one rule— its the one already stated but bears repeating, that is never, never, never, ever trust data provided to our app by an outside source...