Microsoft MVC Book or Tutorial Recommendation

Question

I am new to the MVC practice, and would like to start with Microsoft's MVC. Can we recommend a book or tutorial that can help a newbie get started?

Answer 1

For beginners, watch the video by Haack which gives a good walkthrough of what MVC can do. Jeff Atwood was also featured here and gave a good overview of the technology in his experience building StackOverflow.

ASP.NET MVC @ PDC

Answer 2

Please see this SO Post: MVC Learning Resources

Answer 3

Try Rob Conery's posts on MVC Storefront. A series of blog posts and podcasts where he builds an application using ASP.NET MVC. The code for each post can also be downloaded.

Answer 4

There are two Wrox books that are coming:

Professional ASP.NET MVC by Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack

Beginning ASP.NET MVC by Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri

There is also a list of currently published books at: http://stribny.name/netbits/6-asp-net-mvc-books-so-far

Answer 5

A couple of very awesome resources are

The blog of Scott Gutrie (The Gu!)

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

The blog of Stephen Walters

http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/

The blog of Phil Haack (Program Manager for the MVC team)

http://www.haacked.com/

The blog of Rob Conery (Awesome screencast series on developing an e-commerce application)

http://blog.wekeroad.com/mvc-storefront/

Answer 6

First chapter of Professional Asp.Net MVC 1.0 written by Scott Gu is available as a free download.

Related session by Scott Hanselman @ Mix 09.