I'm struggling to find a good reference application for ASP.NET MVC. By "reference", I specifically mean an application that flexes all of the framework's features in the Microsoft-sanctioned manner, such as: Master pages Partial views Strongly-typed models Authentication Custom routes etc... The open source examples that are out there ( CodeCampServer , SutekiShop ) either add significantly to the base framework or don't use all of the baked-in features.

Reputation: 31975

Is there an official ASP.NET MVC reference/example app?

I'm struggling to find a good reference application for ASP.NET MVC. By "reference", I specifically mean an application that flexes all of the framework's features in the Microsoft-sanctioned manner, such as:

Master pages
Partial views
Strongly-typed models
Authentication
Custom routes
etc...

The open source examples that are out there (CodeCampServer, SutekiShop) either add significantly to the base framework or don't use all of the baked-in features.

Upvotes: 6

Answers (5)

Chris

Reputation: 6325

While this might be a little late to the show, I believe that the ASP.net team would like people to start using the MVC Music Store as the official mvc reference example. The Music Store application is using the Razor view engine with Entity Framework's code first approach (also demonstrates database first) along with examples of dependency injection, test driven development, jQuery integration and getting and using NuGet packages.

A second reference example seems to be more on the cutting edge of things and is provided by the Patterns and Practices people. This is called the Silk Project and takes advantage of the latest web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along with modern web technologies such as jQuery, Internet Explorer 9, and ASP.NET MVC3.

These together would probably show you the newest in ASP.net MVC development along with some pretty neat ideas and examples.

Upvotes: 0