About this Book

The ASP.NET MVC framework has come a long way over the last few years.

It was originally the vision of Scott Guthrie in early 2007, and with a subsequent prototype demonstration in late 2007 and the hire of Phil Haack as a Senior Program Manager, this vision became a reality. Several public previews of the framework were released over the following year, followed by the final release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 in early 2009.

At a time when many web developers in the .NET community were becoming frustrated that other platforms had great MVC frameworks available (such as Ruby on Rails) that provided lightweight, clean, and simple ways of building web applications, ASP.NET Web Forms was losing favor. Developers struggled to make it do ...

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