Practical ASP.NET MVC 4 Projects walks you through the process of building nine real web applications using ASP.NET MVC. Along the way, you will meet all the building blocks of a real-world web application and gain valuable hands-on experience with a wide range of techniques such as advanced view authoring, data retrieval and handling asynchronous tasks. * Start as you mean to go on, by using MVC best practices to build a blog application. * Practice advanced view authoring techniques to impress your users with a contact list management system. * Learn to retrieve data from a public web service and handle errors effectively with the help of a model weather app. * Discover the benefits of unit testing with a simple game, for a valuable principle you can apply to all your applications. * Build working subscribe and login functionality, with your own social networking site modeled on Twitter. * Build your own chat room, to see how a real-time multi-user web application works. * Grasp the importance of the single page application concept by building an RSS reader. * Improve the visibility of a small band website using search engine optimization (SEO). * Meet jQuery Mobile and discover a popular approach to mobile web development. Whether you're just starting out in ASP.NET MVC, or you've built a few basic projects and want to experience the full range of what the platform has to offer, Practical ASP.NET MVC 4 Projects is an enjoyable tour through this popular and powerful platform that will build your confidence and give you skills you use again and again.
