Asp.Net MVC - Refresher Course

Question

When MVC first came out, I was reading about it everyday and learning all I could about it. About the time MVC 2 RC2 came out, I stopped learning for various reasons (new house, new job, laziness).

I now want to get back into MVC ... I have a half written blog that I want to finish, but I feel rusty when it comes to anything MVC. Can anyone provide me some good links to refresher courses on MVC? I don't need to learn from scratch, but I want to refresh, then learn about changes from MVC 2 RC2 to MVC 3.

EDIT: Anyone know an ETA on when MVC 3 is going to release? Should I convert my current MVC 2 project to MVC 3 ... or wait for an RC ?

Answer 1

Read and try "Nerd Dinner". I used it when I first started doing ASP.NET MVC2 2 months ago, and it helped a lot. (Right click the link and Save Target As. It's a PDF by Wrox)

Answer 2

Scott Guthrie had a good post a few weeks ago.

Answer 3

Microsoft has a good page on ASP.NET MVC 2, which has tutorials covering most important aspects of the framework, as well as several references to blog posts going into things in more detail. That would seem a pretty natural place to start.

For MVC 3 the best resource currently seems to be Scott Gu's introductory blog post.

Answer 4

You can always hit the ASP.NET MVC site

http://www.asp.net/mvc

I dunno about you but I do better just looking at and writing code to figure things out. Jon Galloway has put up the MVC Music Store, I believe this has been updated for MVC 2

http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com/

Also the Nerd Dinner code has been updated for MVC 2 as well

http://nerddinner.codeplex.com/releases/view/45647

Finally Phil Haack has the updates to MVC 2 on his blog which has a number of links to tell you what has changed from 1 to 2. This post is probably the most valuable information if you just want to know what has changed from 1 to 2.

http://haacked.com/archive/2010/03/11/aspnet-mvc2-released.aspx

As the last couple of posters mentioned, Scott Gu has a good post on MVC 3 Preview 1 Features, and Phil Haack also has a post on his blog.

http://haacked.com/archive/2010/07/27/aspnetmvc3-preview1-released.aspx

Answer 5

Pick up the book "MVC2 in Action" from Manning and take a look at the latest MVCConf videos. I found the one done by Jimmy Bogard enlightening.