Technology Stack

EISK v6.0 – ASP.NET MVC edition bundles most of the greatest and successful platforms, frameworks and technologies together,  to enable web developers to learn and build manageable and high performance web applications with rich user experience effectively and quickly. This page provides a recap of the technologies that are utilized by this edition.

Prerequisites

Development: Installation Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2010 (Web Developer Express Edition) or higher
  • Service Pack 1
  • Tools for ASP.NET MVC 4 - Web Platform Installer
  • Tools for Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 (optional)
  • Package Management Extension: Nuget (optional)

Server Side: Installation Prerequisites

• Internet Information Services EXPRESS/6.0/7.0? (ASP.NET MVC 4 configured)

Client Side: Supported Browsers

Desktop Browsers

Browsers (Mobile Device)

Technologies Utilized

Below are the informational resources of relevant technologies that have been utilized in EISK 6.0 MVC Edition.

Programming Language and Scripts

• Programming Language: C# 4.0
• Language Integrated Query: LINQ
  • LINQ to Entities
  • LINQ to Objects
• Markup Language: HTML 5
  • Progress Tag
  • XMLHttpRequest Level2
• Style Sheet Language: CSS 3
• Client Script Language: JavaScript 1.8.5

Frameworks (Server Side)

• Core Server Side Framework: .NET Framework 4.0
• Web Application Framework: ASP.NET MVC 4.0
  • Model and Data Validation
  • View Engine: Razor 2.0
  • Controllers and Routing
  • FileContentResult
  • Role Based Security
  • Dependency Injection
  • Testing
  • Mobile Features
  • jQuery Mobile View Switcher Library
• Web Service Framework: ASP.NET Web API 4.0
• Object Relational Mapping: Entity Framework 4.3.1
  • Code First Development
  • Code First DataAnnotations
  • IValidatableObject Interface
  • DbContext Initializer
• Mocking Framework: Moq 4.0
• IoC Container: Unity 2.1
• Service Locator: Common Service Locator 2.0
• Logging: ELMAH?

Frameworks (Client Side)

• JavaScript Framework: jQuery 1.6
  • Plug-in: jQuery Validation 1.8
  • Plug-in: jQuery Validation.Unobtrusive 1.0
  • Plug-in: jQuery-UI Date Picker
  • Plug-in: jQuery Mobile 1.0b3
• CSS Framework
  • 960 grid system

Tools

• Integrated Development Environment: Visual Studio 2010
  • Service Pack 1
  • Tools for ASP.NET MVC 4
  • Tools for Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 
  • Extension: Nuget
• Web Server: Internet Information Services
• Database Server: Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 or higher 

Additional Reference and Acknowledgement

While building, apart from the resources mentioned above, the following resources were also placed a very important role to provide in-depth understanding about ASP.NET MVC and relevant best practices: 

• The Complete Guide To Validation In ASP.NET MVC
• Custom Data Annotation Attribute for Date Comparison
• Conditional Validation in ASP.NET MVC
• Html Helper Extension for Show Message
• How we do MVC – View models
• View Models in ASP.NET MVC
• New Tricks in XMLHttpRequest2
• A great resource page for ASP.NET Web API 4.0
• All-In-One resource page for ASP.NET MVC 4.0