Upcoming Pluralsight Course - Web Development with ASP.NET MVC, EF Code First, jQuery, and HTML5
Update: This course is now available here!
OK...so I admit we're still working on the final title, but there's a lot of great information in this upcoming Pluralsight course I'm working on so it's hard to keep the title short.
The goal of the course is provide an end-to-end look at different technologies and show how they can be integrated together. Most courses focus on a very narrow topic (such as jQuery Fundamentals, Structuring JavaScript, or ASP.NET Web Forms) or only focus on getting started with technologies but don’t go into more real-world scenarios. With this new course, I walk through building an application from start to finish and discuss data repository classes, creating and using Model classes, ASP.NET MVC controllers and actions, converting Model objects to JSON, client-side technologies such as jQuery, JavaScript patterns, HTML5, Ajax calls, structuring code, plus a lot more. If you've been waiting for a course that ties everything together into one cohesive unit then I hope this course will help you out. Here's a quick list of a few of the key technologies that the course will cover:
- HTML5 features
- Modernizer
- HTML5 Boilerplate
- jQuery along with several jQuery plug-ins
- jQuery Templates
- Canvas
- SVG
- CSS3
- JSON and AJAX technologies
- ASP.NET MVC (Controllers, Actions, and working with JSON)
- Entity Framework Code-First
- Repository Pattern for data access
- Unity IoC Container
- Custom Dependency Resolvers
- SQL Server 2008
- Nuget
I'm doing the final edits on the last chapter's videos right now and hope to have everything finished up by today. I'm hoping the course will be live by early next week.
I'm considering adding a new chapter or two once the course is released that covers converting the project from MVC3 to MVC4 to demonstrate a few of the new features that MVC4 has. If you'd be interested in having that type of content down the road please let me know (leave a comment).