I don't think you are going to need to worry about the page life cycle in MVC - it's one of the nice things about MVC over webforms, they get rid of a lot of that level of complexity.
I've recently read Professional ASP.net mvc 4 by some of the legends at Microsoft (Jon Galloway, Phil Haack), which I think is an excellent book. I couldn't imagine having to write a webforms app again now. ________________________________ From: Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2014 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for ASP.Net MVC book Hi Iain, your message is well timed, as I'm also jumping head first into ASP.NET MVC because it seems popular and I'm hoping to find a neater alternative to the bloated mountain of gotchas that is WebForms. I had this book delivered two weeks ago: Programming ASP.NET MVC 4: Developing Real-World Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC. I also found a free PDF of the whole book. I don't recommend this book. Hundreds of pages are devoted to databases, testing, security, caching and building, which have little to do with the core of learning ASP.NET MVC. I'm angered by the lack of attention to the vitally important MVC coding techniques and how to manage the page lifecycle. The book does not contain enough information, discussion or samples to empower you to dive in and correctly structure and code a significant app. I'm going to buy another book. Maybe someone can recommend one for both of us. Greg K On 5 January 2014 09:58, Iain Carlin <cut...@gmail.com> wrote: Happy New Year all, > > >I've resisted MVC for too long and have decided to update my knowledge from >ASP.Net forms. > > >I think the question may have been asked before but I can't find it in the >archives, can anyone recommend a good book on the subject for someone who >already knows ASP.Net pretty well but wants to start dabbling in MVC? > > >Cheers, > > >Iain
