Overview

ASP.NET MVC 2 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view, user-input handling using the controller, and the domain logic using the model.

ASP.NET MVC applications are easily testable using techniques such as test-driven development (TDD).
The installation package includes templates and tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 to increase productivity when writing ASP.NET MVC applications. For example, the Add View dialog box takes advantage of customizable code generation (T4) templates to generate a view based on a model object.

The default project template allows the developer to automatically hook up a unit-test project that is associated with the ASP.NET MVC application.
Because the ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 3.5 SP 1, developers can take advantage of existing ASP.NET features like authentication and authorization, profile settings, localization, and so on.


System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista
.NET 3.5 SP1. Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are required to use certain parts of this feature.


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If your hosting provider already has ASP.NET MVC 1.0 installed on the hosting server, deploying your MVC application is no different that deploying any ASP.NET Web application. However, if the hosting provider does not currently support ASP.NET MVC 1.0, you must upload the required MVC assemblies in the Bin folder of your deployed application.

After ASP.NET MVC is installed, the following assemblies are located in the global assembly cache (GAC) on your computer:

- System.Web.Mvc (the ASP.NET MVC assembly)
- System.Web.Routing (a .NET Framework assembly that is required by ASP.NET MVC)
- System.Web.Abstractions (a .NET Framework assembly that is required by ASP.NET MVC)

1. In Visual Studio, open the project that you want to deploy.
2. In Solution Explorer, expand the References node.
3. Select the following assemblies:
- System.Web.Mvc
- System.Web.Routing
- System.Web.Abstractions
4. In the Properties window, set Copy Local to True.
5. In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and click Publish.  The Publish Web dialog box is displayed.
6. In Target location (http:, ftp:, or disk path), browse to a local folder and click Open.
7. Select either Replace matching files with local copies or Delete all existing files prior to publish.
8. Under Copy, select one of the following, depending on your needs: Only files needed to run this application, All project files, or All files in the source project folder.
9. If your application contains files in the App_Data folder such as database files, select Include files from the App_Data folder.
10. Click Publish. All the files that are required in order to deploy the application are copied to the target folder.

11. Test your application by deploying the files to a staging server or virtual machine that does not have MVC installed. If you do not have access to a staging server or a virtual machine, you can uninstall MVC and then test the application locally.
12. Upload the application to the hosting provider.


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With classic mode, an HTTP request would be executed as follows:



As you can see, things such as authentication are performed twice, only for ASP.NET requests. Protecting an image from being displayed using ASP.NET authentication would be impossible in the classic mode! Using integrated mode, any HTTP request can be processed using ASP.NET modules and handlers such as authentication, making ASP.NET a full member of the IIS request processing pipeline.

IIS 7.0 provides support both for this new integrated mode and for the classic IIS 6.0 mode. The first option allows you to configure IIS 7.0 from within your web.config (which is preconfigured for the ASP.NET MVC framework); the latter requires some server-side configuration. To check whether an application is running in integrated or classic mode, follow these steps:

/Products/All

/Products.aspx/All

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/Products.aspx/All

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace ModifiedRouteExample
{
    public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
               "Default",                                      
             // Route name
              
               "{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}",                    
            // URL with parameters
              
               new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }
            // Parameter defaults
            );

        }

        protected void Application_Start()
        {
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        }
    }
}

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",
    "{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }
);