I received some messages from readers Wisecodes who want to begin in ASP.NET MVC, but do not know where to start, and I suggest you write some posts that explain this new framework from scratch. Perhaps someday it, but meanwhile, I reminded them that there are free resources that can be very useful to take the first steps (and even dig a little) on this technology.

For example, recently have appeared a large number of books on ASP.NET MVC, and most of them can download free chapters, in addition to help us decide which of them might be in our interest to have the information value we can provide. Like always, the issue is the spread of this information, so I decided to make this compilation to have them all by hand. As you’ll discover new pieces expand the list, and of course, if you know someone who is not here, I’ll comment’s and add it.

That yes, all in English, to be very technical but I think they are easy to understand.

	Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework Author: Steve Sanderson Post-show: Now Published Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress) «Steve Sanderson’s blog Free Chapter: Chapter 2: Your First ASP.NET MVC Application (23 pages) In this chapter, the author shows in great detail, almost step by step, how to create our first simple application with ASP.NET MVC. First, it creates a very basic project through which explains the basics of programming by following this model, and then goes into the creation of a mini-application data entry, validations and simple logic.
	Professional ASP.NET 1.0 MVC Authors: Scott Hanselman Rob Conery, Phil Haack and Scott GuthrieFree Chapter: Chapter 1: Nerdinner (192 pages) This extensive chapter describes the creation of a moderately complex site, www.nerddinner.com, using large amounts of related technologies such as filters MVC framework, Ajax, LinqToSql, unit testing, etc.. Highly recommended, essential.
	ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Author: Maarten Balliauw Post-show: Announcing my book, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Free Chapter: Chapter 2: Your first ASP.NET MVC application (20 pages) A brief tour of the process of creating an MVC application, the system routes, controllers, views, and unit testing. Pretty basic, perhaps too “quickly”, but valid in any case.
	ASP.NET MVC in Action Authors: Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy Bogard Post-show: Announcing ASP.NET MVC in Action (from Manning) – Jeffrey Palermo (. Com) – CodeBetter.Com Free resource: Getting Started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Green Paper – PDF) (18 pages) (The link to the document you sent by email after submitting your address.) This is another introduction to the framework, the system routes, controllers and views from scratch.Free Chapter: Chapter 9: AJAX in ASP.NET MVC (21 pages) Interesting introductory chapter to the use of Ajax technology on ASP.NET MVC using jQuery and Ajax helpers to exchange data with the server.
	ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed Author: Stephen Walther Free chapters: the author has published several chapters in his blog, and withdraw as soon as the book is available at Amazon, so hurry up that the contents are excellent. Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Chapter 2 – Building a Simple ASP.NET MVC Application Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers Chapter 4 – Understanding Views Chapter 5 – Understanding Models Chapter 6 – Understanding HTML Helpers Chapter 9 – Understanding Routing
	Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Authors: Simone Chiaretto, Keyvan Nayyeri Free Chapter: Chapter 9: Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications (38 pages) Interesting chapter describes various techniques for unit testing of applications built with this framework, including the creation of mocks, dependency injection controllers, testing route and obliquely, some TDD.

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This entry was posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 and is filed under E-Book.