ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

445 Pages·2013·8.55 MB·English

by  Andy Meadows

Table of Contents
ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Developing for the Mobile Web
History of the mobile web
The Nokia 9000
Market fragmentation
WAP 1.0 and WML
WAP 2.0 and XHTML MP
Continued development constraints
Processing constraints
Network constraints
Content compression
Server to client compression
Minification
Image optimizations
Lower color depth
CSS image sprites
Data URIs
Content Delivery Networks
Cached data
Less traffic
Presentation constraints
Single window
Lower resolution
Content spacing
Viewing the mobile web
Market percentage
Browser variants and compatibility
WebKit
Trident
Gecko
Presto
Emulating the mobile web
Mobile device and browser emulators
Opera
Android
iOS
Windows Mobile
The user agent
Emulating Internet Explorer Mobile
Emulating Mobile Safari
Emulating Chrome for Mobile
Emulation in this book
Support for the mobile web in ASP.NET MVC 4
Summary
2. Homebrew and You
Understanding the homebrew domain
Knowing your ingredients
Malt
Yeast
Ale versus lager
Hops
Brewing
Mashing
Sparging
The boil
Fermentation
Bottling and kegging
About our mobile app
App requirements
Adding, editing, and deleting recipes
Adding recipes to a library
Rating recipes
Commenting on recipes
Anonymous browsing, authenticated contributing
The BrewHow solution
Creating the project
Choosing our template
The Empty template
The Basic template
The Internet Application template
The Intranet Application template
The Mobile Application template
The Web API template
Project changes in MVC 4
NuGet
Global.asax
Launching the BrewHow app
Responsive design
Configuring and launching an emulator
Summary
3. Introducing ASP.NET MVC 4
The Model-View-Controller pattern
The controller
The view
The model
The MVC pattern and ASP.NET MVC 4
Controllers in ASP.NET MVC
Creating the Recipe controller
Introduction to routing
Action methods
ActionResults
Invoking the Recipe controller
Views in ASP.NET MVC
Razor
The @ character
Code blocks
Expressions
Inline code
Comments
Shared views
Layouts
The _ViewStart file
Partial views
HTML helpers
Html.RenderPartial and Html.Partial
Html.RenderAction and Html.Action
Display templates
Html.Display
Html.DisplayFor
Html.DisplayForModel
Editor templates
Creating our Recipe view
Making Recipe default
Returning a model to the view
Using ViewData
Using ViewBag
Using TempData
Strongly typed models
Returning a Recipe list
Creating the model
Returning the model
Displaying the model
Summary
4. Modeling BrewHow in EF5
What's new in Entity Framework 5.0?
Performance enhancements
LocalDB support
Enumeration support
The BrewHow model
Modeling data
Recipe
Review
Style
Category
The BrewHow context
Generating our database
Altering the model
Adding relationships
Overriding conventions
Enabling migrations
The InitialCreate migration
The Configuration class
Adding seed data
Adding a migration
Applying migrations
Consuming the model
Pagination
Summary
5. The BrewHow Domain and Domain-driven Design
Tenets of DDD
Domain model
Entities
Value objects
Aggregates
Factories
Repositories
Services
BrewHow design
BrewHow entities
BrewHow repositories
Consuming the domain
Recipe view model
Data annotations
Recipe controller
GET versus POST
Model binding
Recipe views
Summary
6. Writing Maintainable Code
The SOLID principles
Single Responsibility Principle
Open Closed Principle
Liskov Substitution Principle
Interface Segregation Principle
Dependency Inversion Principle
SOLIDifying BrewHow
Adding interfaces
Infrastructure
Dependency Injection
Service locator
Managed Extensibility Framework
Convention-based configuration
MEF Service Locator
Using the MEF Service Locator
Dependency Resolver
The MefDependencyResolver class
Completing the conversion
IBrewHowContext
Repositories
Registering dependencies
Summary
7. Separating Functionality Using Routes and Areas
Routes
Locating by style
Routing constraints
Style interaction
Recipe list modification
Style Controller and view
Slugging BrewHow
Model slugs
Stage the database
Modifying entities
Retrieval by slug
Areas
Creating the review area
Registering the Review area
The Recipe review controller
Recipe review view models
Recipe review action methods
Creating the views
Area route values
Routing namespaces
Summary
8. Validating User Input
Data validation
Data annotations
MetadataType attribute
Updating the database
Validating the validations
Server validation
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
ValidateAntiForgeryToken
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
ValidateInput attribute
AllowHtml
Html.Raw
Summary
9. Identifying and Authorizing Users
User authentication
Windows authentication
Forms authentication
Authenticating BrewHow users
SimpleMembership
Customizing authentication
SimpleMembership initialization
Unifying contexts
The UserProfile repository
AccountController contexts
Registering and logging in
External authentication
Registering with an external account
Associating an external account
Authorization
Restricting access
The Authorize attribute
Authorizing user contributions
Cleaning the UI
Content ownership
Enabling ownership
UserProfile schema mapping
Seeding users
Applying the ownership migration
Assigning ownership
Enforcing ownership
Adjusting the view model
Ensuring ownership
Validating ownership
A recipe library
The library data model
The library repository
The library controller
The library view
Summary
10. Asynchronous Programming and Bundles
Asynchronous programming
Task Parallel Library
Task
Creating a Task
Awaiting completion
Completion callbacks
Async
Await
Asynchronous controller action methods
Creating asynchronous actions
An asynchronous recipe controller
Bundles
Creating bundles
Bundle types
Wildcard support
Consuming bundles
Summary
11. Coding for the Real-time Web
Simulating a connected state
Long polling
Forever Frame
Server-Sent Events
WebSockets
SignalR
Persistent connections
Hubs
Real-time recipe updates
Installing and configuring SignalR
Creating the recipe hub
Modifying the recipe list view
Publishing event notifications
Summary
12. Designing Your App for Mobile Devices
HTML5
Markup changes
The DOCTYPE tag
The character set
Type attributes
Visual Studio 2012 support
Semantic tags
The article tag
The header tag
The section tag
The nav tag
The footer tag
Modifying recipe details
Custom data attributes
Form controls
Local storage
Geolocation
CSS3
Media types
CSS selectors
Type selectors
ID selectors
Attribute selectors
Class selectors
Universal selectors
Pseudo-class selectors
CSS media queries
Media features
The viewport meta tag
A responsive design