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Is the Nerddiner walk-through suitable for ASP.NET MVC 2?

I'm keen to teach myself ASP.NET MVC 2 (coming from a heavy embedded or rich GUI background). If have found the nerddiner walk-through but it is still for ASP.NET MVC 1. The codeplex downloads have been updated to MVC 2 but the link for the PDF goes back to the MVC 1 book.

  • Is it even possible to follow the walk-through in MVC 2?
  • If so, what technologies does it skip? (e.g. LinqToSql instead of EF?)
  • Is there an updated PDF (other than getting the whole Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 book)?

EDIT - the answer seems to be universally that the v1 tutorial is good enough for learning v2. As it happened, I downloaded the sample chapter of the new book from Amazon onto my Kindle DX and found that the tutorial has been updated to EF. Because I don't personally like learning something (e.g. LinqToSql) that has been superseded - I've clicked "Buy" - Damn you Amazon for making it so easy to spend my money :-)

Solution

  • There's no updated PDF version but the MVC 2 version of the book is coming out this might be updated.....

    However if you go through the nerd dinner walk through 99.9% of what you read applies to MVC 2. MVC 2 just adds more functionality that won't be covered but there's plenty of blogs around that cover MVC 2 functionality - check out Scott Guthrie or Phil Haack for details.

    As far as technologies skipped the nerd dinner PDF uses LinqToSql whereas the MVC 2 sample uses Entity Framework. Both are valid forms of data access and are similar so if you start on LinqToSql you probably will pick up Entity Framework easily.