Learn MVC for WebForms Developer

Question

What are the best resources for an ASP.NET WebForms developer who wants to learn MVC easily?

Answer 1

He draws from several areas of knowledge. The better you work with OOP, Design Patterns, .net 2.0 and 3.0 (Linq / Lambda / Generics / Anonymous Types / Lists / IEnumerable expressions, etc.), the easier it will be to pick up.

StackOverflow.com is always a good resource, but regular Google searches are really good. Be sure to read things written in 2010 for MVC2, and try to only read things in 2011 for MVC3 razor.

http://www.manning.com/palermo3/ is the third book to be released. Steven Sanderson's Apress book is great, and Wrox MVC 3 is also on Amazon.com.

asp.net/mvc watch the video. Start playing when you go. Be patient.

Answer 2

In fact, I have a presentation that I am making about this. Tonight I am posting a code for the conversation I did last night on this topic for Microsoft Philly.Net, tomorrow completedevelopment.blogspot.com tomorrow and the code and slides will be there. I suggested this particular topic to one of the partisan guys, but first I'll try to do something for them :)

Answer 3

I highly recommend the first asp.net mvc object oriented tutorial, because you know the asp.net and .net platform, if you don't know anything about mvc, maybe you can look at the mvc music store tutorial, but I think you can learn and improve skills with this tutorial http://www.asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/creating-an-entity-framework-data-model-for-an-asp-net-mvc-application

Answer 4

For anyone looking for a great tutorial, the ASP.NET MVC Music Store Tutorial is absolutely superb. This gave me the prerequisites for developing an MVC application and enough to start doing my own applications and research to fill in the gaps.

Highly recommend this tutorial.