MVC 4.0, Knockout.js, Bootstrap and EF6.0 FAST, FLEXIBLE AND RESPONSIVE QUICK TO MARKET WEBSITES.

Web Forms to MVC Paradigm Shift  Razor syntax (introduced 3.0)  No page events  No View State  Helpers not Controls  Follows pattern set by W3C for website design  HTML is the main content delivery mechanism  JavaScript is the main client behavior mechanism  CSS is the main client Format Mechanism

Why, that sounds a lot like classic ASP? Not even close, BUD!!!  RESTful (a good example is a library site if this was an actual restful site this would take us to all books by authors with the last name King.  Cleaner HTML on both the client and the designer page.  Easier to implement AJAX callbacks and work with JSON data  No longer tied to the Form  Access to the full.net library from  Strictly follows the MVC (design pattern)

What is Twitter Bootstrap?  It’s not another twitter client (one of the few things left that isn’t)  Has almost all of the css style tags you will ever need  HTML 5 compliant (IE 9 and up, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera)  Technically it is supported in IE 8 but it looks AWFUL  It one of the quickest ways to get a professional looking site off the ground  Well documented

Why Knockout?  Plays nice with MVC  Much cleaner code (very unobtrusive)  Follows a client side MVVM (Model, View, View-Model)  Allows for automatic binding of HTML to the Model.  Almost all events and actions take place client side  Extremely easy to use out of the box  Fairly easy to extend

Entity Framework 6.0  Much more tooling  Native Async support  Code Based Configuration  Interception is much easier  look at what is sent before it gets to SQL, take that DBAs  Better Code first support for stored procedures

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