Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 Platform, 1st ed.

The power of ASP.NET MVC 5 stems from the underlying ASP.NET platform. To make your ASP.NET MVC applications the best they can be, you need to fully understand the platform features and know how they can be used to build effective and elegant MVC framework applications.

The ASP.NET platform provides ASP.NET MVC applications with a rich suite of services including vital every-day features like extensible request handling, state management, and user authentication. Understanding how these features work is the difference between creating an average web application and the best-in-class.

MVC applications that are architected with a thorough knowledge of the underlying platforms are faster to write, faster to run, and more readily adaptable to change. In Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 Platform, best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from the entire ASP.NET platform, beginning with a nuts-and-bolts description of the patterns and tools you need through to the most advanced features. He goes in-depth at every stage to give you the practical knowledge that you need to apply these concepts to your own code.

1. Putting the ASP.NET Platform in Context

2. Patterns and Tools Primer

Part 2. The ASP.NET Platform Foundation

3. The ASP.NET Lifecycles

4. Modules

5. Handlers

6. Disrupting the Request Lifecycle

7. Detecting Device Capabilities

8. Tracing Requests

Part 3. The ASP.NET Services

9. Configuration

10. State Data

11. Caching Data

12. Caching Content

13. Get Started with ASP.NET Identity

14. Applying ASP.NET Identity

15. Advanced ASP.NET Identity

To make the best ASP.NET MVC framework applications, you need to fully understand how the ASP.NET platform works. The ASP.NET platform underpins the entire ASP.NET technology stack and provides features and services to make developing scalable and robust applications simpler and easier. This is the only book to cover the entire ASP.NET MVC platform ecosystem in a single reference, showing how good design can bring benefits at all levels of reader's applications.

Written by best-selling ASP.NET MVC author, Adam Freeman whose work has been consistently well received in this area since ASP.NET MVC's inception.