ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS

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2. Building a Basic MVC Web Site

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3. Creating Views, Controllers, and a Database from Model Classes

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4. Searching, Advanced Filtering, and View Models

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5. More Advanced Data Management

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6. Sorting, Paging, and Routing

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7. Managing Product Images: Many-to-Many Relationships

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8. Authentication and Authorization Using ASP.NET Identity

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   Pages 185-284

9. Creating a Shopping Basket

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10. Checkout: Creating and Viewing Orders

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11. Advanced Scenarios and Common Workarounds

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    Pages 371-405

12. Using Entity Framework Code First with an Existing Database

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13. Introduction to ASP.NET Core v1.0 (MVC6 and EF 7)

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    Pages 427-440

14. Deploying to Azure

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15. Restyling the Web Site: An Introduction

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16. Styling the Home Page

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17. Styling Forms, Grid Layouts, and Tables

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18. Advanced CSS

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19. Responsive Web Sites: Styling for Mobile/Cell and Tablet Sized Devices

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20. Back Matter

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Get up and running quickly with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework as you build and deploy complex websites. By using a fully working example retail website you will learn solutions to real-world issues that developers frequently encounter.

Whether you are a novice developer or an experienced .NET developer wishing to learn more about MVC and Entity Framework, author Lee Naylor will teach you how to develop a detailed database-driven example website using Microsoft ASP.NET and Entity Framework Code First with fully explained code examples.

What You Will Learn:



• Get up and running quickly with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework to build a complex website to display and manage several related entities
• Integrate identity code into a project
• Understand advanced topics, including asynchronous database access and managing data conflicts
• Work with Microsoft Azure, including remote debugging and database access
• Develop your CSS skills, including animations and media queries for use with tablet or mobile/cell phone devices


Who This Book Is For:


Novice developers new to the subject through to more experienced ASP.NET web forms developers looking to migrate from web forms to MVC and Entity Framework. The book assumes some programming knowledge such as object-oriented programming concepts and a basic knowledge of C#.

• ASP.NET MVC
• Entity Framework
• Visual Studio
• CSS
• Microsoft

• Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom

  Lee Naylor

Lee Naylor has 15 years experience as a software engineer with experience in Finance (Banking and Accounting), Retail, Automotive and Gaming/Gambling. His current areas of expertise are ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Front End Development with CSS, JavaScript and JQuery. In the past he has worked with several technologies, including Classic ASP, VB, Access, Java, Oracle, Unix and search engine software such as Google Search Appliances and Autonomy/Verity. He is also experienced in Project and Team Management, mentoring/teaching others and understand all aspects of Software Projects from proposals and budgeting through analysis, estimations, planning, development, testing, UAT, and release management.

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