Keyvan Nayyeri

As I had written before, Simone and I had planned to write a Refcard about ASP.NET MVC 1.0 for DZone to be published after our book and promote it. Therefore, we were in touch with Alvin Ashcraft and other DZone editors to get this Refcard done.

This Refcard, entitled Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0, is now published on DZone website and you can download the PDF copy for free.

Previously I had written about DZone Refcardz and the goals that they have to deliver a compact introduction to a software technology to readers. The emphasis is on key concepts, principles, and use of diagrams and tables to express the concepts.

Our Refcard about ASP.NET MVC 1.0 follows the same approach to give a quick overview to ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

After giving an introduction, this Refcard talks about the prerequisites of learning ASP.NET MVC and the installation process for ASP.NET MVC, then reviews the MVC pattern. After that, it follows with building a simple application and connects it to some fundamental concepts of ASP.NET MVC such as routing, model, controller, action method, model binder, view, and HTML helper. The last parts of the Refcard discuss T4 templates as a tool to generate text templates for ASP.NET MVC applications and the implementation of AJAX scenarios in ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

It’s tried to cover all the key concepts in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 in this short guide, and I think that it delivers all these topics very well.

Here I have to admit that almost all the work for this Refcard is done by Simone, and unfortunately I faced with some unexpected difficulties in personal life that didn’t let me keep my end, however, Simone was kind enough to include me in the final work, so I have to thank him here. This Refcard would be the last work that I’ve done with him for a while. We’ve worked on some open source projects as well as the book and this Refcard in the past few years and all these works were great experiences for me, and I hope that I can work with him in the feature on other projects. Also I’d like to use this opportunity to congratulate his upcoming birthday.