ASP.

NET MVC 2 Tips & Tricks

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About the material

Each tip was a lesson learned the hard way during project delivery at Headspring We employ all of these techniques in every current ASP.NET MVC project.
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Example application specs

Visual Studio 2010 / C# ASP.NET MVC 2 SQL Server 2008 Express (database named HeadspringExample) MvcContrib NHibernate w/ Fluent C# mappings AutoMapper StructureMap Tarantino WatiN

Functional walk-through

1. View Models

Problem: Complex Domain Model

Solution: De-normalized View-Specific Model

View-Specific Model

2. AutoMapper

Problem: Mapping code

Projection

Solution: Automapper

3. Templated Helpers

Problem: Too Much Duplication

Solution: Conventions through templates

Rich View Models

Customization

MvcContrib input builders convention engine

4. Expression-Based Helpers

Problem: Magic Strings

Solution: Refactoring-friendly helpers

5. Model Binders

Problem: Duplication in actions

Solution: Model binders

6. Controller Factories

Problem: Highly coupled classes

Solution: Enable Dependency Injection

7. Action Results

Problem: Duplicate ActionResult logic

Solution: Wrap Existing ActionResults

Reduce Duplication

Simplify Responsibilities

Small, maintainable controllers

8. View Compilation

Problem: Errors in views

Solution: Compile views

Visual Studio Integration

9. Portable Areas

Problem: copy/paste areas

Solution: Portable Areas

Wire in

10. Integrated Full-System Testing

Problem: Brittle, version-ignorant tests

Solution: integrated pseudo-DSL

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