Sitecore MVC

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If you are new to Sitecore MVC, watch the following two videos for an overview of the basics. Sitecore MVC is an adaptation of ASP.NET MVC for Sitecore, and knowledge of standard ASP.NET MVC is both good and bad. /what-is-sitecore-mvc.

Video: Getting Started

Video: View Renderings, @Html.Sitecore(), and Custom Models

Blog Posts

• http://kevinobee.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/cassette-bundling-with-sitecore-mvc/
• http://kevinobee.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/mvc-areas-in-sitecore/
• http://ctor.io/wrapping-a-view-rendering-to-automatically-add-additional-markup/
• http://www.chrisvandesteeg.nl/2014/06/13/sitecore-mvc-in-a-multisite-environment-areas/
• http://brad-christie.com/blog/2014/09/24/using-data-attributes-with-sitecore-mvc/ (data-* attributes and Sitecore MVC)
• http://www.matthewdresser.com/sitecore/single-page-application-sitecore-mvc
• http://mhwelander.net/2014/06/16/supporting-field-parameters-with-sitecore-mvc/
• http://mhwelander.net/2014/06/13/view-renderings-vs-controller-renderings/
• http://mhwelander.net/2014/05/22/passing-data-between-actions-in-sitecore-mvc/
• http://www.seanholmesby.com/fixing-visual-studio-intellisense-in-sitecore-mvc-views/

Official Sitecore Documentation (7.0 - 7.2)

• Sitecore MVC Developer Reference

IoC / Dependency Injection

Moved to its own page here.

Unit Testing

Blog Posts

• http://blog.istern.dk/2012/07/10/unit-testing-our-mvc-controller-for-sitecore/
• http://mhwelander.net/2014/04/30/unit-testing-sitecore-mvc/
• http://www.igloo.com.au/blog/unit-testing-for-sitecore/
• http://blog.istern.dk/2012/02/07/unit-testing-with-sitecore-item/
• http://nttdatasitecore.com/Blog/2014/September/Highly-testable-Sitecore-code-using-MVC-Ninject-Synthesis-Moq-and-NUnit
• http://adeneys.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/unit-testing-in-sitecore-is-not-scary/
• http://hermanussen.eu/sitecore/wordpress/2012/06/sitecore-unit-testing-with-test-fixtures/
• http://www.partechit.nl/nl/blog/2014/09/sitecore-abstractions-dll-in-sitecore-7-5
• http://www.martywoods.nl/unit-testing-sitecore-mvc-its-easy-when-using-synthesis/
• http://www.martywoods.nl/unit-testing-sitecore-webforms-with-the-mvp-pattern/
• http://blog.istern.dk/2013/04/08/mocking-sitecore-with-microsoft-fakes-part-1/
• http://blog.istern.dk/2013/04/10/mocking-sitecore-with-microsoft-fakes-part-2
• http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2014/05/testing-sitecore-with-test-driven-code/
• http://blog.istern.dk/2012/02/07/unit-testing-with-sitecore-item/

Video

• Sitecore Unit Testing Setup
• Alistair Deneys on Unit Testing Sitecore

Form Posts and Routing

Blog Posts

• http://mhwelander.net/2014/05/28/posting-forms-in-sitecore-mvc-part-1-view-renderings/
• http://mhwelander.net/2014/05/30/posting-forms-in-sitecore-mvc-part-2-controller-renderings/
• http://ctor.io/posting-forms-in-sitecore-controller-renderings-another-perspective/
• http://jockstothecore.com/to-the-controller-and-back-part-1-routing/
• http://jockstothecore.com/to-the-controller-and-back-part-2-validation/

Other Videos

• YouTube: User Group Conference presentation with link to SlideShare for the slides (Ruud van Falier)

Other Resources

• GitHub Project: Sample Sitecore MVC (sample project used by introductory videos)
• GitHub Project: Sitecore MVC Contrib
• https://github.com/herskinduk/AutoWrapping
• https://github.com/sergeyshushlyapin/Sitecore.FakeDb