Project Silk is a sample application that the MSDN patterns & practices Web Guidance Team has been working on that demonstrates modern web application develop techniques on the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3 web stack. The target audience for this guidance project is experienced developers creating enterprise, rich, interactive, web applications.

The Project silk application is a Mileage Stats application containing a multi-page interactive UX where pages are rendered without requiring a post back. This creates the illusion of a desktop application. The lack of post backs enable rich UI transitions between pages. The browser application runs very fast because of the client-side data caching.

See a 5 minute intro video about Project Silk here.

Download the latest drop from CodePlex.

Here's a few screen shots:

The Welcome Page

The Dashboard

Here's the technologies that the team has provided guidance for.

• ASP.NET MVC 3
• jQuery
• Entity Framework with SQL CE 4
• Unity (for DI/IoC)
• DotnetOpenAuth w/OpenID
• xUnit & qUnit

Here's the general guidance topics.

• MVC, the pattern and ASP.NET implementation
• Client side script with the single page interface pattern
• Unit testing, including JavaScript/jQuery unit testing
• Dependency Injection with Unity
• The repository pattern with Entity Framework
• Authentication with DotnetOpenAuth

Go get it now! silk.codeplex.com!