Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta - Part 1

Single Page Application Frameworks are gaining popularity in the ever evolving web community with lot of libraries such as JavaScriptMVC, Backbonejs and many other libraries. ASP.NET MVC 4 introduces experimental support for building single page application (SPA) through a template. Much of the plumbing work of wiring up the client side scripts, javascript modelviews and the controllers is automated, making it a quick start to develop SPAs relatively easier. Lets examine a scenario where we are building a Northwind Store using SPA. I installed the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 and the Northwind Sample Database for SQL Server Post that I did a "File - New Project - ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application" In MVC 3 we are used to see a screen...(read more) ...