ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Walkthrough

At long last, the book that I worked on with Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Scott Guthrie is in stock at Amazon.com.

To commemorate the book being available, the two Scotts worked very hard to convert the free eBook of chapter 1 (the end-to-end walkthrough) from the PDF into a series of HTML articles.

This is a great series which walks through the construction of the NerdDinner website. It touches upon most of the day-to-day aspects of ASP.NET MVC that you’ll want to know. It’s a great way to start understanding how the pieces largely fit together.

The rest of the book is for those who want to drill deep into the details of how the framework works. We tried to pepper the book with notes and anecdotes from the product team in a style similar to the annotations in the Framework Design Guidelines book. If you’re looking for reasons not to buy the book, see Rob’s post.

extended-forehead-editionThe bad news is that despite our heroic efforts in which we cajoled, begged, and pleaded and rendered our clothes asunder, we were not able to convince our editors to produce a special platinum extended forehead edition of the book. I really thought we could we charge extra for the limited edition cover and make gangbusters. I’ll just post it here so you can see for yourself. Click on it for a larger view.

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Simon Apr 29, 2009 10:32 AM
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I love how your extended forehead leans to your right. I take it you are right-brained?
Requesting Gravatar... Michael K. Campbell Apr 29, 2009 11:13 AM
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I believe that should be called the 5-head edition.

I definitely would have paid more for it though...
Requesting Gravatar... zack Apr 29, 2009 2:35 PM
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will amazon sell a kindle version of the book? currently there doesn't appear to be one for sale.
Requesting Gravatar... wife Apr 29, 2009 3:45 PM
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currently sales rank #140 in Amazon books overall!!!
: )
Requesting Gravatar... Utkarsh Puranik Apr 29, 2009 11:24 PM
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Read the first chapter where you have given walkthrough of NerdDinner, benefited from it a lot. Now I understand the basics of MVC. Waiting for this book to reach bookstores in my city(cause I cannot buy online :( )
Thanks
Requesting Gravatar... Andrei Rinea Apr 30, 2009 2:10 AM
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It would have been cooler to have the extended forehead edition with a bonus chapter. That would have made killer sales!
Requesting Gravatar... Ferry Meidianto May 01, 2009 11:45 AM
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Cool :D
I'm waiting for the book I bought from amazon to arrive.
Let's see what can I get without those 4 foreheads, hehe...
Requesting Gravatar... Ruslan O. May 01, 2009 2:26 PM
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Hi.

I'm currently reading this book. And should be noted, it's written in a perfect form!

It's really excellent job!

Thanks a lot.
Requesting Gravatar... Jeff May 04, 2009 4:08 PM
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Phil, I know you all work for Microsoft but I wonder why you aren't pushing people harder towards MVC. I would be dismayed if only 5% of asp.net users adopt the MVC framework.

In my opinion, WebForms is only good for smaller sites, intranet sites and such. I think MVC is a huge step in the right direction from Microsoft and should be promoting it as such.
Requesting Gravatar... arti May 04, 2009 7:38 PM
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This is the best book I have read in a long time. Now if only somebody could write this kind of book for Entity Framework.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked May 04, 2009 11:06 PM
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@Jeff I wrote a freakin' book on it. What more do ya want?! ;)

My hope is that if we make a good product, it'll push itself.
Requesting Gravatar... Geoffrey Emery May 07, 2009 4:16 PM
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Dude,
Just finished the book. ROCK ON!.. Loved it. Loved the banter. First time i lol when reading tech book.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked May 07, 2009 7:38 PM
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@Geoffrey which part made you LOL? :)
Requesting Gravatar... Alex May 09, 2009 10:10 AM
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Phil,

What suggestions/links for replacing LINQ2SQL with entity framework? I am stuck at the point where you are going over OnValidate methods - EF doesn't have this...

Thank you,
Alex

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