James Bogard

JIMMY BOGARD is a Technical Architect at Headspring. He is an Agile software developer with six years of professional development experience. He has delivered solutions from conception to production for many clients, solutions that range from shrink-wrapped products to enterprise e-commerce applications for Fortune 100 customers. He is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and is an active member in the .NET community, leading open source projects, giving technical presentations, and facilitating technical book clubs.

Currently, Jimmy is the lead developer on the NBehave project (a behavior-driven development framework for .NET) and AutoMapper (a convention-based object-to-object mapper), and he’s the facilitator of the Austin Domain-Driven Design Book Club. Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders and C# Insiders groups, and he received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009.

books by James Bogard

ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action

  • May 2012
  • ISBN 9781617290411
  • 440 pages
  • printed in black & white

ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action is a hands-on guide that shows you how to apply ASP.NET MVC effectively. After a high-speed ramp up, this thoroughly revised new edition explores each key topic with a self-contained example so you can jump right to the parts you need. Based on thousands of hours of real-world experience, the authors show you valuable high-end techniques you won't find anywhere else. Written for developers, the book arms you with the next-level skills and practical guidance to create compelling web applications. You need some knowledge of ASP.NET and C#, but no prior ASP.NET MVC experience is assumed.

ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action

  • May 2010
  • ISBN 9781935182795
  • 432 pages
  • printed in black & white

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (model/view/controller) is a relatively new Web application framework that combines ASP.NET's power and ease of use with the stability and testability of a MVC framework. The much-anticipated version 2 release brings new capabilities to the framework along with numerous additions that enhance developer productivity. In ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action, readers learn how to move from web form-based development to designs based on the MVC pattern. It begins with an introduction to the MVC framework and quickly dives into a working MVC 2 project.

Featuring full coverage of new version 2 features, this book helps readers use developer-oriented upgrades like "Areas" to break a large project into smaller pieces and explore the new data handling tools. This revised edition adds a completely new tutorial to bring developers with no prior exposure to the MVC pattern up to speed quickly, keeping its focus on providing high-quality, professional grade examples that go deeper than the other ASP.NET MVC books.