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"One common problem with the naming convention and default routing mechanism in ASP.NET MVC is that we tend to group actions in a controller for sharing an URL space. This basically leads to complex controllers with a lot of unrelated methods that break the SOLID principles. Too many responsibilities in a simple class affects maintainability in the long run and causes secondary effects that complicates unit testing. For example, we usually end up with class constructors that receives too many dependencies as it is discussed here in SO."

" The jQuery UI widgets are brilliant. They speed up web development no end with those easy to use controls. The downside is remembering all the HTML mark-up and widget options! "

"In case you did not see the latest news, what we used to know as WCF Web API was recently rebranded and included in ASP.NET MVC 4 as ASP.NET Web API. While both frameworks are similar in essence with focus on HTTP, the latter was primarily designed for building HTTP services that don't typically require an user intervention. For example, some AJAX endpoints or a Web API for a mobile application. While you could use ASP.NET MVC for implementing those kind of services, that would require some extra work for implementing things right like content-negotiation, documentation, versioning, etc. What really matter is that both framework share many of the extensibility points like model binders, filters or routing to name a few."

"The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is an architectural design principle that separates the components of a Web application. This separation gives you more control over the individual parts of the application, which lets you more easily develop, modify, and test them."

"This walkthrough shows how to get started with adding ASP.NET AJAX functionality to an ASP.NET MVC application. "

"Many people on the forums want to know how to best protect Actions on their Controller using Forms Authentication. The MVC Team has done a nice job introducing Filters (using Attributes) to this latest drop of MVC, and in this post I'll show you how to create a filter that can handle security."

"Many Web applications require a way to restrict access to some resources (such as specific pages) so that those resources are accessible only to authenticated users. The default Web application project template for ASP.NET MVC provides a controller, data models, and views that you can use to add ASP.NET forms authentication to your application. The built-in functionality lets users register, log on and off, and change their password. For many applications, this functionality provides a sufficient level of user authentication."

"You cannot use routing or web.config files to secure your MVC application. The only supported way to secure your MVC application is to use a base class with an [Authorize] attribute, and then have each controller type subclass that base type. "

One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of "view engines" - which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The "default" view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC view engines used today include Spark and NHaml. The new view-engine option we've been working on is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. The codename for this new view engine is "Razor", and we'll be shipping the first public beta of it shortly.

"Model-View-Controller (MVC) is probably the most cited example of an architectural software pattern. It was conceived by Trygve Reenskaug working in the SmallTalk group at Xerox Parc in 1978. One motivation for the pattern was the separation of concerns: to allow Model objects to be concerned only with modeling business capabilities, not with how their data and methods were presented to the user, nor with capturing or responding directly to user inputs.[1] "

"Naked Objects MVC combines the power of the naked objects pattern with Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC 2 framework. Now you can take a POCO domain object model and turn it into a fully-functional web application in minutes, without writing a single line of user interface code. You can then customise the generic user interface by adding custom style sheets, custom views and custom controllers, following standard ASP.NET patterns."

"A lot has been written about how to get ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6 with extensionless URLs. Up until now, the story hasn't been very pretty. When running ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 4, it gets a lot easier."

"Now, I will show one real-world example which you may use it in your daily work of developing applications with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery."

"I'm excited to announce the release today of several products: * ASP.NET MVC 3 * NuGet * IIS Express 7.5 * SQL Server Compact Edition 4 * Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 * Orchard 1.0 * WebMatrix 1.0 "

"Lately, I have been playing with few JavaScript frameworks and in today's modern web applications it is very common that we are including tons of JavaScript files in our application. One of the thing that plays important role in application performance is how fast these script files are delivered into the browsers. I have extensively blogged on combining, compression and caching of JavaScript files in my old blog, in this post I will show you, how you can achieve parallelism in delivering the scripts in the browser with the Head JS library. If you do not know what parallel script downloading is and how does it impact on page speed, then I would suggest to read this article of the YSlow creator. In short, when a browser encounters a script tag in a page it halts its rending until it downloads the script file, the parallelism is actually archived by adding the script dynamically or by XHR depending upon the browser it is running."

"Welcome at the WatiN (pronounced as What-in) website. Inspired by Watir development of WatiN started in December 2005 to make a similar kind of Web Application Testing possible for the .Net languages. Since then WatiN has grown into an easy to use, feature rich and stable framework. WatiN is developed in C# and aims to bring you an easy way to automate your tests with Internet Explorer and FireFox using .Net."

"The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them."