Part 1. High-speed fundamentals

Part 1 is for those folks who haven’t done much with ASP.NET MVC and need to see every concept individually before using them all together. Whether or not you have followed some of the tutorials available at http://www.asp.net/mvc, you will find the chapters in part 1 very easy to follow. But don’t expect part 1 to be only for absolute beginners. We move very quickly from creating your very first ASP.NET MVC project through to exploring all the key concepts in depth.

Before you begin chapter 1, you will want to install ASP.NET MVC 4 and Visual Studio 2010 or 2011.

In chapter 1, we walk through a beginner ramp-up, covering the basics of the MVC pattern and ASP.NET MVC implementation. Chapter 2 takes you through implementing a simple Hello World example. Next, chapter 3 covers the fundamentals of MVC views, including creating strongly typed view models and covers some of the templating features in the Razor view engine. Chapter 4 introduces the basics of controllers: handling requests, form posts, and passing information to the view.

Once you understand the fundamentals of ASP.NET MVC, you can move on with confidence to part 2, which will layer on more combinatory concepts.