ASP.NET MVC Learning Roadmap

For everybody who wants to learn ASP.NET MVC from the ground up, Young Yang posted a very useful learning roadmap in the ASP.NET forum.

I shared this roadmap on this Wiki, so that everybody can profit from it. A special thanks for this great roadmap and his hard work goes to Young Yang.

For everybody, who looks forward to ASP.NET MVC 4 this roadmap should be interesting.

Part 1: MVC preparation

Reference

• Basic knowledge of Html: The introduction to Html
• Basic concepts of JavaScript/jQuery: JavaScript Tutorial and jQuery Tutorial
• C# (including C# 4.0 features like dynamic types): New Features in C# 4.0
• LINQ in general: LINQ (Language-Integrated Query)
• Basic ASP.NET knowledge (level 100 should be enough): ASP.NET Overview

Optional topic

• Data access technology, especially Entity Framework (level 100 should be enough)

Part 2: MVC Beginner’s

MVC Level 100

Reference

• MVC Overview 
• Getting Started Tutorial (You can try to build a simple but complete MVC application by using these MVC concepts)
• ASP.NET MVC Framework
• MVC 3 note release

Optional topic

• MVC Beginner’s Guide video
• ASP.NET MVC beginner Book: ASP.NET MVC in Action

Part 3: More information you can refer (This part is depend on you)

MVC Level 200-300

Reference

• Walkthrough: Using TDD with ASP.NET MVC
• MVC Model validation
• EF code first
• Dependency Injection In MVC
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location
• Unobtrusive Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3
• Overriding Unobtrusive Client Side Validation Settings in ASP.NET MVC 3
• Auto mapper from domain model to view model
• ASP.NET MVC Templates
• Custom Membership provider:
  • http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx
  • http://theintegrity.co.uk/2010/11/asp-net-MVC-2-custom-membership-provider-tutorial-part-1/
  • http://www.devtrends.co.uk/blog/the-complete-guide-to-validation-in-asp.net-MVC-3-part-2
• MVC custom validation
• CMS in MVC
• Model binding to a List

Optional topic

• Advanced MVC 3 video
• Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications
• MVC level 200-300 Book: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework.
• NuGet

Useful tools in MVC

• Firebug and fiddler.
• Glimpse: allows you to debug your Web App/Service right in the browser, In other words what Firebug is to debugging your client side code, Glimpse is to debugging your server within the client.
  • http://nuget.org/List/Packages/Glimpse
  • http://getglimpse.com/About/QuickStart
• Elmah is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable.
  • http://code.google.com/p/elmah/wiki/MVC
  • http://nuget.org/List/Packages/elmah

Discussions

• MVC Home site
• MVC Forums

See Also

• Wiki: Development Portal (en-US)
• ASP.NET Portal

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