ASP.NET MVC Learning Roadmap

For everybody who wants to learn ASP.NET MVC from ground up Young Yang posted a very useful learning roadmap in the forum on this site.

original source:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1704315.aspx/1?I+am+new+to+mvc3+will+any+one+provide+me+link+where+i+can+create+apps+in+mvc3

I shared this roadmap on this wiki, so that everybody can profit from it. A special thanks for this great roadmap and his hard work goes to Young Yang.

For everybody, who looks forward to ASP.NET MVC 4 this roadmap should be interesting:
http://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ASP.NET%20MVC%204%20RoadMap

Part 1: MVC preparation

Reference:

• Basic knowledge of Html: The introduction to Html
• Basic concepts of javascript/jQquery: JavaScript Tutorial and jQuery Tutorial
• C# (including C# 4.0 features like dynamic types): New Features in C# 4.0
• LINQ in general: LINQ (Language-Integrated Query)
• Basic ASP.NET knowledge (level 100 should be enough): ASP.NET Overview

Optional topic:

• Data access technology, especially Entity Framework (level 100 should be enough) : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937709

Part 2: MVC Beginner’s

MVC Level 100:

Reference:

• MVC Overview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg416514(v=VS.98).aspx
• Getting Started Tutorial(You can try to build a simple but complete MVC application by using these MVC concepts): http://www.asp.net/MVC/application-development
• Asp.net MVC Framework: http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/286/aspnet-MVC-framework/
• MVC 3 note release: http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/MVC3-release-notes

Optional topic:

• MVC Beginner’s Guide video: http://www.asp.net/MVC/pluralsight
• Asp.net MVC beginner Book: Asp.net MVC in Action

Part 3: More information you can refer (This part is depend on you)

MVC Level 200-300

Reference:

• Walkthrough: Using TDD with ASP.NET MVC:
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff847525.aspx
• MVC Mode validation:
• http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/15/asp-net-MVC-2-model-validation.aspx
• EF code first:
• http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/10/class-level-model-validation-with-ef-code-first-and-asp-net-MVC-3.aspx
• Dependency Injection In MVC:
• http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/117/Dependency-Injection-and-Inversion-of-Control-with-ASP.NET-MVC
• Asp.net MVC3 Service Location:
• http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/service-location-pt1-introduction.html
• Unobtrusive Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3:
• http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/MVC3-unobtrusive-validation.html
• Overriding Unobtrusive Client Side Validation Settings in ASP.NET MVC 3:
• http://weblogs.asp.net/imranbaloch/archive/2011/07/13/overriding-unobtrusive-client-side-validation-settings-in-asp-net-MVC-3.aspx
• Auto mapper from domain model to view model:
• http://bengtbe.com/blog/2009/04/14/using-automapper-to-map-view-models-in-asp-net-MVC/
• Asp.net MVC Templates:
• http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/aspnet-MVC-2-templates-part-1-introduction.html
• Custom Membership provider:
• http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx
• http://theintegrity.co.uk/2010/11/asp-net-MVC-2-custom-membership-provider-tutorial-part-1/
• http://www.devtrends.co.uk/blog/the-complete-guide-to-validation-in-asp.net-MVC-3-part-2
• MVC custom validation:
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg618485
• CMS in MVC:
• http://forums.asp.net/p/1687614/4451793.aspx/1?Re+MVC3+CMS
• Model binding to a List:
• http://haacked.com/archive/2008/10/23/model-binding-to-a-list.aspx

Optional topic:

• Advance MVC3 video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/MVCConf/MVCConf-2011-Brad-Wilson-Advanced-MVC-3
• Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/MVCConf/MVCConf-2-Eric-Sowell-Evolving-Practices-in-Using-jQuery-and-Ajax-in-ASPNET-MVC-Applications.
• MVC level 200-300 Book: Pro Asp.net MVC Framework.
• NuGet: http://nuget.org/
• Debug tool:

Useful tools in MVC:

• Firebug and fiddler.
• Glimpse: allows you to debug your Web App/Service right in the browser, In other words what Firebug is to debugging your client side code, Glimpse is to debugging your server within the client.
• http://nuget.org/List/Packages/Glimpse
• http://getglimpse.com/About/QuickStart
• Elmah is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable.
• http://code.google.com/p/elmah/wiki/MVC
• http://nuget.org/List/Packages/elmah

Discussions:

• MVC Home site: http://www.asp.net/Mvc
• MVC Forums: http://forums.asp.net/1146.aspx/1?MVC