Chapter 2: Your First ASP.NET MVC Application

This chapter describes the ASP.NET MVC project template that is installed in Visual Studio. A simple application is built, briefly touching on all of the aspects of the ASP.NET MVC framework.

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen an overview of all aspects of an ASP.NET MVC web application. We started by exploring the ASP.NET MVC web application project template that is installed in Visual Studio 2008, after which we created our own action method and corresponding view.

Another thing that we have seen is how to create a strong-typed view and how a controller action method can pass strong-typed ViewData to the view.

We ended this chapter by looking at the various aspects of unit testing-what it is, why it is used, how to create a unit test for an action method by using Visual Studio's unit test generation wizard, and modifying the unit test code by hand.