MVC recommended tutorials and articles

• Getting Started
• Working with data
• Security
• Azure
• Performance and Debugging
• Additional Resources

Getting Started

• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 5 This 11 part series is a good place to start.
• Pluralsight ASP.NET MVC 5 Fundamentals (video course)
• Intro to ASP.NET MVC by Jon Galloway and Christopher Harrison
• Lifecycle of an ASP.NET MVC 5 Application  PDF document that charts the lifecycle of an ASP.NET MVC 5 app.

Working with data

• Getting Started with EF 6 Code First using MVC 5 Tom Dykstra's award winning series dives deep into EF.

Security

• Create an ASP.NET MVC app with auth and SQL DB and deploy to Azure This popular tutorial walks you through creating a simple app and adding membership and roles.
• MVC 5 App with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google OAuth2 Sign-on  This tutorial shows you how to build an ASP.NET MVC 5 web application that enables users to log in using OAuth 2.0 with credentials from an external authentication provider, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft, or Google.
• Create a secure ASP.NET MVC 5 web app with log in, email confirmation and password reset First in a series on Identity, includes code to resend a confirmation link.
• ASP.NET MVC 5 app with SMS and email Two-Factor Authentication Second on Identity series.
• Best practices for deploying passwords and other sensitive data to ASP.NET and Azure App Service
• Two-factor authentication using SMS and email with ASP.NET Identity  isPersistent and the security cookie,  code to require a user to have a validated email account before they can log on, how SignInManager checks for 2FA requirement, and more.
• Account Confirmation and Password Recovery with ASP.NET Identity Provides details on Identity not found in Create a secure ASP.NET MVC 5 web app with log in, email confirmation and password reset such as how to let users reset their forgotten password.

Azure

• Create an ASP.NET web app in Azure  Short and simple tutorial for deployment to Azure.
• Create an ASP.NET MVC app with auth and SQL DB and deploy to Azure

Performance and Debugging

• Profile and debug your ASP.NET MVC app with Glimpse

Additional Resources

• ASP.NET MVC Facebook Birthday App

This article was originally created on April 29, 2015

Author Information

Rick Anderson – Rick Anderson works as a programmer writer for Microsoft, focusing on ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure and Entity Framework. You can follow him on twitter via @RickAndMSFT.