MVC – Books and source code!

MVC is not very hard to understand or grasp but the level of freedom it offers is pretty overwhelming! There are tons of great resources out there and stackoverflow offers some great answers even to the most difficult questions.

What I need is some books in the matter. I just love reading books. I know Scott Hanselman prefers to read code over books but me I really prefer the books before the code so that I can get a clear understanding what the framework is supposed to do FOR me. I have a bit of problem understanding a new framework from reading someone else’s code since whoever produced the code is bound to have hacked and slashed the way of the framework in a manner that suits him or her.

Fortunately there are some books coming out on the MVC framework during June-August and I ordered a few of them. Fredrik Normén wrote a blog post a few days ago about html being so 1990 and I totally agree but the step to Silverlight is going to take some time and MVC is a great way of doing .net until I go nuts while trying to learn something like Silverlight.

Anyway this is not supposed to be a post about what technology is the future I was supposed to post a few links where it is currently possible to to get on the way with MVC.

Let’s start with the useful free source code.

• Nerd Dinner – Great tutorial, 189 pages PDF and source code. Think this is part of a book or something and worth looking in to. Code is small, simple and well organized and just the type of thing needed to get going. Cheers for the gift Scott!!
• Code Camp Server – Some very advanced code here. Maybe not for the beginner. It’s using NHibernate and a few other very interesting frameworks like Castle Project and Tarantino.
• Storefront – Something happened to this project. It is still a good resource though.
• http://www-asp.net/mvc – Got loads of videos and source code.

So next would be the books I ordered. I can’t recommend any of them yet because I have not read them :)

• Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework
• ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0
• Learning jQuery 1.3

I know I know, jQuery is not MVC but they are closely related :)