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Best Practices in ASP.NET: Entities, Validation, and View Models

by Shawn Wildermuth

For the ASP.NET developer, making sense of the best practices around data and validation can be confusing. In this course, Shawn Wildermuth will show you the best practices for using entities, validation, and view models.

What you'll learn

When you're developing an ASP.NET project, knowing how to handle data and validation can be confusing. Phrases like view-models, data transfer objects and entities are thrown about casually and some developers can be confused about what to use when. In this course, Shawn Wildermuth will attempt to clarify the best practices by showing you how entities, validation, and view models work together in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API.

About the author

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He’s authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he’s spoken at including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, NDC, VSLive, DevIntersection, MIX, Devteach, DevConnections and Dev Reach. He is one of... more

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