In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best ASP.NET MVC books and tutorials can help fill your brain this June and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (2014)
- Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2 (2017)
- Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 (Expert’s Voice in ASP.Net) (2013)
- ASP.NET MVC 5 with Bootstrap and Knockout.js (2015)
- Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (3rd Edition) (Developer Reference) (2014)
- ASP.NET MVC 5 – Building a Website with Visual Studio 2015 and C Sharp (2016)
- Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0: Build modern web apps with ASP.NET Core 2.0, MVC (2017)
- ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC & Razor Pages for Beginners: How to Build a Website (2017)
- ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework (2016)
- Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (2009)
- Pro ASP.NET Core MVC (2016)
- ASP.NET Core 1.1 For Beginners (2017)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (2014)
ASP.NET MVC insiders cover the latest updates to the technology in this popular Wrox reference. MVC 5 is the newest update to the popular Microsoft technology that enables you to build dynamic, data-driven websites.
Author(s): Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson
Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2 (2017)
Now in its 7th edition, the best selling book on MVC is updated for ASP.NET Core MVC 2. It contains detailed explanations of the Core MVC functionality which enables developers to produce leaner, cloud optimized and mobile-ready applications for the .NET platform. This book puts ASP.NET Core MVC into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, cloud optimized extensible web applications. All the new MVC features are described in detail and the author explains how best to apply them to both new and existing projects.
Author(s): Adam Freeman
Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 (Expert’s Voice in ASP.Net) (2013)
The ASP.NET MVC 5 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET.
Author(s): Adam Freeman
ASP.NET MVC 5 with Bootstrap and Knockout.js (2015)
Bring dynamic server-side web content and responsive web design together to build websites that work and display well on any resolution, desktop or mobile.
Author(s): Jamie Munro
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (3rd Edition) (Developer Reference) (2014)
Develop next-generation web applications with ASP.NET MVC. Go deep into the architecture and features of ASP.NET MVC 5, and learn how to build web applications that work well on both the desktop and mobile devices. Web development expert Dino Esposito takes you through the web framework’s Model-View-Controller (MVC) design model, and covers the tools you need to cleanly separate business logic from the user interface. If you’re an experienced web developer new to ASP.NET MVC
Author(s): Dino Esposito
ASP.NET MVC 5 – Building a Website with Visual Studio 2015 and C Sharp (2016)
This book is primarily aimed at developers who havesome prior experience with MVC 5 and are proficient in C#, since thelanguage won’t be explained in any detail. Even if you already havecreated a couple of MVC projects, you might find the content in thisbook useful as a refresher. You might have worked in previous versionsof Visual Studio and MVC and want a fast no-fluff way to get up to speed with MVC 5. In this book you will learn how to build an MVC 5 website using C#
Author(s): Jonas Fagerberg
Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0: Build modern web apps with ASP.NET Core 2.0, MVC (2017)
The ability to develop web applications that are highly efficient but also easy to maintain has become imperative to many businesses. ASP.NET Core 2.0 is an open source framework from Microsoft, which makes it easy to build cross-platform web applications that are modern and dynamic. This book will take you through all of the essential concepts in ASP.NET Core 2.0, so you can learn how to build powerful web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework
Author(s): Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet
ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC & Razor Pages for Beginners: How to Build a Website (2017)
This book is primarily aimed at developers who want to learn how to build ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC and Razor Page applications. You should be an intermediate level C# developer with some experience in HTML5 and CSS3. The C# language won’t be explained in any detail. You will learn ASP.NET Core 2.0 by building three applications. The first application will be built using an empty template, the second with the MVC template, and the third with Razor Pages.
Author(s): Jonas Fagerberg
ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework (2016)
Get up and running quickly with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework as you build and deploy complex websites. By using a fully working example retail website you will learn solutions to real-world issues that developers frequently encounter. Whether you are a novice developer or an experienced .NET developer wishing to learn more about MVC and Entity Framework, author Lee Naylor will teach you how to develop a detailed database-driven example website using Microsoft ASP.NET and Entity Framework Code First with fully explained code examples.
Author(s): Lee Naylor
Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (2009)
Steven Sanderson has seen the ASP.NET MVC framework mature from the start, so his experience, combined with comprehensive coverage of all its features, including those in the official MVC development toolkit, offers the clearest understanding of how this exciting framework could improve your coding efficiency―and you’ll gain invaluable awareness of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges. The ASP.NET MVC Framework is the evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform.
Author(s): Steven Sanderson
Pro ASP.NET Core MVC (2016)
Now in its 6th edition, the best selling book on MVC is now updated for ASP.NET Core MVC. It contains detailed explanations of the new Core MVC functionality which enables developers to produce leaner, cloud optimized and mobile-ready applications for the .NET platform. This book puts ASP.NET Core MVC into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, cloud optimized extensible web applications. All the new MVC features are described in detail and the author explains how best to apply them to both new and existing projects.
Author(s): ADAM FREEMAN
ASP.NET Core 1.1 For Beginners (2017)
This book is primarily aimed at developers who want to learn how to build ASP.NET Core 1.1 MVC Applications. You should be an intermediate level C# developer with some experience in HTML5 and CSS3. The book presupposes that you have a solid C# foundation since the language won’t be explained in any detail.
Author(s): Jonas Fagerberg
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Best ASP.NET MVC Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some ASP.NET MVC books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Pro ASP.NET Core 6: Develop Cloud-Ready Web Applications Using MVC, Blazor, and Razor Pages
Author(s): Adam Freeman
ID: 3224656, Publisher: Apress, Year: 2022, Size: 41 Mb, Format: pdf
Pro ASP.NET Core 3: Develop Cloud-Ready Web Applications Using MVC, Blazor, and Razor Pages
Author(s): Adam Freeman
ID: 2535626, Publisher: Apress, Year: 2020, Size: 30 Mb, Format: epub
Murach's ASP.NET Core MVC
Author(s): Mary Delamater, Joel Murach
ID: 3093289, Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates, Inc., Year: 2020, Size: 17 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly chart-busters according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.