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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 MVC pattern and ASP.NET MVC 4


The implementation of the MVC pattern in ASP.NET MVC 4 largely follows a convention-over-configuration paradigm. Simply stated, if you put something in the right place and/or name it the right way, it simply works. That is not to say that we cannot configure the framework to ignore or alter these conventions. It is the flexibility and adaptability of ASP.NET MVC 4 along with its adherence to web standards that has driven its rapid adoption.

Note

If you have no exposure to ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC, please note that each of the components of the MVC pattern, as they relate to ASP.NET MVC 4, is often presented in a separate chapter of its own.

The following is a very condensed high-level overview of the MVC pattern in ASP.NET MVC 4.

Controllers in ASP.NET MVC

In ASP.NET MVC 4, controllers respond to HTTP requests and determine the action to take based upon the content of the incoming request.

Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 4 are located in a project folder named, appropriately...