Training: Developing with MVC 5.2

In this course, you will be learning about many of the new features in MVC 5 and Visual Studio 2013 as it relates to web application development. We will learn about the new One ASP.Net project type and how it makes ASP.Net project creation much easier. As part of One ASP.Net, we will look at how to add in Application Insights offered through Microsoft Azure to collect telemetry data about our application to help improve performance. We will also learn about new Authentication models, how to upgrade existing MVC 4 projects to MVC 5, as well as how to use Bootstrap layouts and components in your MVC project including the new enhancements to the Html Helper method EditorFor.

In this course, you will be learning about many of the new features in MVC 5. We will learn about the new enhancements to MVC Views such as Enum Helpers and unobtrusive Ajax for the MaxLength and MinLength attributes. Another cool new feature bundled with MVC 5 is Attribute Routing. With several new attributes, we can easily configure routes directly on the controller and its actions. Next on the list is ASP.Net Identity. We will briefly explain what ASP.Net Identity is and review the default ASP.Net Identity code create by Visual Studio in new MVC 5 projects. Finally, we will discuss Authentication Filters and Filter Overrides.