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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

Simulating a connected state


In traditional web development, there has not been a way to maintain a persistent connection between a client browser and the web server. Web developers have gone to great lengths to try and simulate a connected world in the request/response world of HTTP.

Several developers have met with success using creative thinking and loopholes within the standard itself to develop techniques such as long polling and the forever frame. Now, thanks to the realization that such a technique is needed, the organizations overseeing the next generation of web standards are also heeding the call with server-sent events and web sockets.

Long polling

Long polling is the default fallback for any client and server content exchange. It is not reliant on anything but HTTP—no special standards checklists or other chicanery are required.

Long polling is like getting the silent treatment from your partner. You ask a question and you wait indefinitely for an answer. After some known period...