9.4. Summary

When you develop real-world applications in ASP.NET MVC, you often have to deal with the same issues again and again. In this chapter, we tried to provide practical solutions for some of them. Although they’re separate, distinct topics, they all highlight an extremely important and powerful feature of this web development technology: its expandability, thanks to which the framework can be customized to suit your specific needs.

Despite the fact that at a first sight ASP.NET MVC might seem more verbose than Web Forms, we showed how you can leverage, with a little effort, data templates and HTML helpers to minimize the amount of markup you manually write. You can build batteries of reusable components that result in websites with a more consistent look and feel.