Transcript MVC 4.0, Knockout.js, Bootstrap and EF6.0

MVC 4.0, Knockout.js,
Bootstrap and EF6.0
FAST, FLEXIBLE AND RESPONSIVE QUICK TO MARKET WEBSITES.
Web Forms to MVC Paradigm Shift
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Razor syntax (introduced 3.0)
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No page events
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No View State
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Helpers not Controls
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Follows pattern set by W3C for website design
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HTML is the main content delivery mechanism
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JavaScript is the main client behavior mechanism
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CSS is the main client Format Mechanism
Why, that sounds a lot like classic ASP?
Not even close, BUD!!!
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RESTful (a good example is a library site
http://www.library.com/BooksByAuthor/King) if this was an actual restful
site this would take us to all books by authors with the last name King.
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Cleaner HTML on both the client and the designer page.
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Easier to implement AJAX callbacks and work with JSON data
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No longer tied to the Form
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Access to the full .net library from
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Strictly follows the MVC (design pattern)
What is Twitter Bootstrap?
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It’s not another twitter client (one of the few things left that isn’t)
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Has almost all of the css style tags you will ever need
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HTML 5 compliant (IE 9 and up, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera)
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Technically it is supported in IE 8 but it looks AWFUL
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It one of the quickest ways to get a professional looking site off the ground
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Well documented
Why Knockout?
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Plays nice with MVC
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Much cleaner code (very unobtrusive)
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Follows a client side MVVM (Model, View, View-Model)
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Allows for automatic binding of HTML to the Model.
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Almost all events and actions take place client side
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Extremely easy to use out of the box
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Fairly easy to extend
Entity Framework 6.0
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Much more tooling
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Native Async support
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Code Based Configuration
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Interception is much easier
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look at what is sent before it gets to SQL, take that DBAs
Better Code first support for stored procedures
Questions?