Professional ASP.NET MVC 5

I had to "chime in" on the reviewers that expressed sentiments about this book having "too much theory"... I'm a seasoned .NET developer. Like some of you, I've read a trillion books. I appreciate the "background" the author provided in this book. Not just because it's a change to the usual "step by step", "type this, run this" books... This book gives you the "evolution" and "reasoning" behind "stuff"... I firmly feel this is going to help me not just as a coder, but as an architect. Note to the Author: Keep Rockin' man! You did a great job! ******* I found a major error in the code on page 95 ******* context.Artists.Add(new Artist { Name = "Al DiMeola" }); context.Genre.Add(new Genre { Name = "Jazz" }); It should read: context.Artists.Add(new Artist { Name = "Al DiMeola" }); context.Genre.Add(new Genre { Name = "Jazz Fusion" });

Covers everything from basics to advanced in one book. I was able to learn enough MVC to handle the basics and web pages in only a couple days. Allowed me to create useful web pages, and guided the different methods I could use instead of dictating one.

This is a "Pro" level book and therefore, as I'm not in that category, my review might make more sense to a person with intermediate programming skills. For a person with modest skills who is looking for an solid introduction to ASP.NET MVC 5, I suggest this is a three star book. Perhaps for a really experienced programmer who is looking more for a reference book than a tutorial, this could be five star. Overall, I gave it four starts because I sometimes found the book frustrating - more on this below. The authors appear to have an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge on the subject - actually, quite an amazing amount of technical detail in this book - they are clearly highly qualified on the subject. On the other hand, for my needs, I found their "teaching" style to be much less admirable. I found it difficult to tell when they were just talking about a concept or suggesting an actual code exercise - which made it difficult at times to build an actual website following their guidance. Also, it was sometimes difficult to coordinate what was in the book with the code available for download - some mismatches took me a long time to figure out. Perhaps these cases would be non-issues for a more experienced programmer who is mostly looking for a reference book. However, overlooking these problems, I was able to build the websites detailed in the book and I learned a great deal. For the first 8 chapters, I followed very carefully and did all the coding exercises. I also did the complete exercise for chapter 12, "Single Page Applications With AngularJS". I only skimmed the other chapters but I believe they will be good reference resources. It should also be noted that one advantage when buying a WROX book is the P2P forum where authors can interact with readers who have questions. I give the authors of this book credit for monitoring their forum better than many other authors, but I didn't find the responses to be nearly as timely or useful as those authors who are very actively engaged with this process and their readers. From my POV, I'd really like to see the authors turn the first half of the book into beginner's tutorial - with the assistance of a technical writer who is more attuned to a tutorial style. I bought this book because I want to learn specifically about ASP.NET MVC 5 and there are not a lot of choices that are as up to date as this book. I can recommend this book for a person with modest programming skills but be prepared to spend some extra time sorting out some of coding exercises. Sometimes you learn a lot trying to figure out fuzzy instructions!

Excellent book. Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about ASP.NET MVC5. I have a background working with .NET backend-systems and Winform applications, and this book has given me as solid foundation to make the leap to the ASP.NET MVC development world.

I have not yet finished reading and following the examples of the book. So far, I have liked it very much. It goes through step by step process which I like the most because I am just trying to learn the ASP.NET MVC. It really gives a good feelings about the MVC framework.

This book gave me extremely deep insights into dozens of features in MVC 5. I'm helping our team transition from Web Forms to MVC and this book has given me so much to work with. Thanks to the authors for such a deep dive.

I have had great expectations to this book, which unfortunately never came through. The book introduces the reader to MVC framework, during the first 7 chapters. I don't know why did is needed since it supposed to be a Professional book. The book mentioned that it will use the MVC Music Store sample, but more or less never does it, Many chapters in the book are written like the author was explaining the ASP.NET MVC documentation. Among these are the chapter related to Routing, ASP.NET Web.Api, these two chapters provide almost no practical knowledge, which is a sad since I really had great expectations to these. The "Membership, Authorization and Security" chapter does not deal with ASP.NET Identity 2.0, which is frustrating, since I was expecting that from a MVC5 book. Conclusion If you are looking for a book on MVC 5 that will teach you how to practically do advanced things using ASP.NET MVC 5 technologies, then this book is NOT for you. This book is first of all "not really" a advanced/professional book, furthermore it mainly focuses on explaining the theory behind the different technologies that together make ASP.NET MVC (Routing, Web.API etc.) Neither does the book "build up" an application throughout the book which would have been nice. It seems like that the authors of this book have agreed to write one or two chapters each on a chosen subject and then all the chapters have been merged into this book. = "Too many cooks spoil the broth" Improvements In order to improve the quality of the book I believe the authors should have skipped the introduction chapters. Its fair to assume that the inexperienced reader will start with a beginning ASP.NET MVC book. After that I would had preferred that the authors had given many examples of smart and practical code and attached the theory part to those sample. What is smart and practical code samples? In my opinion that would be how to turn urls like this: domain.com/products/pants to this domain.com/jeans/diesel. Even better would be if it where multilingual, meaning having database driven routing/urls.

I read the reviews for this book. I recommend it for any MVC developer that wants to really understand what's going on. While some people did not like the "history," I found it interesting.

Livro como sempre vindo dessa editora maravilhoso! Bem intuitivo e com uma maneira de explicação muito boa! Ajuda quem está um tempo no mercado e quer se atualizar!

Incredible book. Answer to just about any question you might have on MVC with great examples and justification. I've noticed some people are complaining that it doesn't have step by step tutorials through out the course of the book, those people should read the title of the book "PROFESSIONAL" ASP.NET MVC5. I've been developing for just over 5 years, new to MVC. I've just created an application, as I go through the book I apply what I learn to my application. It is very digestible and I highly recommend it if you're an experienced developer that can wrap your mind around new technology.

It is very clear and easy to read. It is a good book for all levels but does require a good working knowledge of the .NET framework. Having said that, a person with very little experience in MVC can get up speed very quickly. It is essential that they work with the code samples for each chapter.

Super Buch, kann ich sehr empfehlen. Für mich gilt das Buch als Unterstützung für meine Arbeit. Bin ich sehr zufrieden mit dem Produkt.

Ho iniziato da poco a leggerlo ma si prospetta un libro ottimo per chi desidera iniziare ad imparare mvc dalle basi fino ad applicazioni un po' più complesse. Il libro è in inglese ma nonostante ciò è comprensibile anche da uno come me che di certo non sono madrelingua inglese... E' modulare quindi si può anche approfondire qualche capitolo senza leggere necessariamente tutto il libro dall'inizio e vengono anche trattati esempi pratici. Consigliato.