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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

The BrewHow solution


To build the BrewHow mobile app, we are going to use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. If you don't have a version of Visual Studio capable of building ASP.NET MVC 4 projects, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web is freely available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads.

Note

We will constantly refer to Visual Studio or Visual Studio 2012. These are references to any version of Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2010 SP1 that is capable of building ASP.NET MVC 4 apps.

Creating the project

We will start with creating a new solution in Visual Studio 2012. Start by launching Visual Studio. Click on the FILE menu and then click on New Project…. You may also press Ctrl + Shift +N.

Visual Studio will then prompt you with a dialog box asking you for the type of solution you want to create. We will be creating a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web application.

Select the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application icon and provide a name and location for the new project in the Name and Location...