ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development电子书

ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

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

A responsive list

Summary

13. Extending Support for the Mobile Web

Mobile views

A .Mobile layout

Mobilizing BrewHow

Removing content

Prioritizing content

How it works

Display modes

Supporting Asus Nexus 7

Creating the display mode

Registering the display mode

Testing with Nexus 7

Summary

14. Improving the User Experience with jQuery Mobile

Installing jQuery Mobile

Enabling the jQuery Mobile bundle

Viewing the results

jQuery Mobile's layout

Data-roles and data attributes

Form elements

Themes

$.mobile

View switcher

Mobilizing BrewHow

Adjusting the header

The home button

Logging in users

Site navigation

Creating a footer

Desktop footer

Configuring content

Recipe list

The jQuery Mobile listview

Expanded listview content

Listview filters

Buttons

Navigation hints

Recipe details

Back button

Action buttons

Recipe edits

Fieldcontain

Reviews

IsMobileDevice

Mobile views

Summary

15. Reader Challenges

Full-text search

Embedded search

Search boxes

APIs

Lucene.NET

SQL Server Full-text Search

Socialization

Social media support

Recipe additions

Recipe sharing

Offline support

Push notifications

Going native

ASP.NET Web API

Developing native apps

PhoneGap and Appcelerator

Xamarin

Summary

Index