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Best Practices in ASP.NET: Entities, Validation, and View Models

For the ASP.NET developer, making sense of the best practices around data and validation can be confusing. In this course, Shawn Wildermuth will show you the best practices for using entities, validation, and view models.

Shawn Wildermuth - Pluralsight course - Best Practices in ASP.NET: Entities, Validation, and View Models
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When you're developing an ASP.NET project, knowing how to handle data and validation can be confusing. Phrases like view-models, data transfer objects and entities are thrown about casually and some developers can be confused about what to use when. In this course, Shawn Wildermuth will attempt to clarify the best practices by showing you how entities, validation, and view models work together in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API.

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Shawn Wildermuth - Pluralsight course - Best Practices in ASP.NET: Entities, Validation, and View Models
Shawn Wildermuth

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2002, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider.

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