Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3ed (Developer Reference) Paperback – Import, 18 February 2014

This book must have been aimed at my skill level.My background is Servlets, JSPs, Struts, JSF and SpringMVC, i.e. Java.This book let me make the transition really fast and stand up a medium size web site in a couple of weeks.If you know MVC, but not ASP.NET, it is ideal.Because I coded and elaborated the design / code as I read, I feel that the architecture of my ASP.NET site is better than anything I have done in Java. This is because the book instils best practices by example.Although it focused a bit too much on WebForms for me, it really let me realize how much MVC is modelled after SpringMVC.I did need a more advanced book for Razor tags, but it got me up to speed really fast.I used Pro ASP.Net MVC 5 by Freeman for Razor, but that I hardly opened.

This is another awesome book by Dino Esposito.It is a really good book even for developers that they hadn't the change to involved in MVC development. I have several years of experience with MVC and I still learned new technics and tricks from reading the book.

This book as it has written on its side is for professionals only, so do not expect a hand holding tutorial that builds on the last chapter like the excellent Microsoft step by step series. The chapters are designed to briefly explain features of asp.net mvc while maintaining a high level perspective of how things work in conjuction. The only issue I had with the book is that it lacks fully functional solutions to explore.

Not an intro book - but a deep dive for professional developers. I have both the second and third editions and use them frequently when I have a particular area I need a better understanding of.Also, the book comes with 47 samples (several for each chapter) that you can run and work with. These are not your typical Hello World samples, but samples which show how things are done in production apps. Note that these are barely mentioned in the text, so you need to break them and work with them to find what you are looking for. I think these samples are missed by many of the reviewers here. So when I read a chapter, I first open up the samples for that chapter, run them, and then read the material for it.

Dino Esposito goes into much more detail and does not rehash "MusicStore" that is overused in John Galloways book.