I have a need to learn MVC 3 with the Razor view engine and Entity Framework 4, and am trying to figure out where to start.
Over a year ago, I build a site in MVC 2 and LINQ to SQL, but it’s been a long time since I’ve thought about it at all and I’ve forgotten a lot. Though, I still have a loose understanding of routing, action links, and a bit of LINQ. So, I’m not exactly starting from scratch, but it feels like it.
I’ve been doing lots of digging around, in order to learn what I can, but have really only begun to feel a bit overwhelmed. I watched the videos on http://www.asp.net/mvc. While these certainly helped, there are still lots of holes in my knowledge.
In any case, here are some specific things I’m hoping you guys can help me find:
- a good, hands-on MVC 3 tutorial (not unlike the nerd dinner tutorials that were available for MVC 2)
- a clear explanation of Entity Framework 4, including coverage of
topics such as lazy loading and POCO objects - a clear explaination of LINQ, focusing on all of the extension
methods available, etc - resources that are NOT focused on code first models. I already have a
database that is in use (I’m not sure I see the value in code
first anyway)
Does anyone know of a resource or two that has these things?
There is also a very handy project which is already build, but who you can build by yourself with tutorials which will guide you through alot of MVC stuff.
http://www.asp.net/mvc/samples/mvc-music-store
Also I learned alot from the blogs from Stephen Walter: http://stephenwalther.com