Press Release
July 15, 2010
Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Raleigh, NC—It's testable. It's light-weight. It's open-source. It's... Microsoft? Yes, finally, Microsoft has figured it out. ASP.NET MVC 2.0 lets you test drive your code, control the output of your HTML, and leverage C# and .NET in an easy-to-use web framework. It's ready to go toe-to-toe with other popular web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. Programming in C# is fun again!
In Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $32.95 USD), author Jonathan McCracken shows you all you need to know to get started developing web applications using test-driven development (TDD) in ASP.NET MVC.
From building your first page, to data access, to integrating with web services such as Blogger.com, Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC guides you step by step. You'll come away with a complete understanding of web services and data access, and you'll learn how to test each component so that your code is bug-free and maintainable from the start. You'll see how to handle security, logging, and error handling. Then, you'll protect your site with ASP.NET MVC's advanced security features.
Software isn't useful until it's deployed into production. You'll see how to do automated deployment using MSBuild, a build tool product that can help you get your site online repeatably and reliably. Throughout, you'll work with open source projects that complement ASP.NET MVC, including NHibernate, MVCContrib, and Castle Windsor Container. These tools speed up developing database components, architecture layers, and testing your code.
As you build and deploy your application, you'll not only learn the framework itself, but also gain valuable experience with the test-first methodology, driving your application development through small and measurable incremental improvements.
In short, if you work in the Microsoft space, you need this book.
For a review copy or more information please email pragprogpr@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.
Jonathan McCracken is the Director of Services with ThoughtWorks Canada. He has developed .NET applications for a wide range of companies, including Microsoft.
Additional Resources
For more information about the book, including code, errata, discussions, full table of contents, excerpts from the book and more, see the catalog page for Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC.
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