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Now that it's been a little while through the Beta, MS just released the Release Candidate version of MVC4/VS2012/etc. Speaking to the navigation/help pages (mentioned by some other posters), they've added a new IApiExplorer class. I was able to put together a self-documenting help page that picks up all of my ApiControllers automatically and uses the comments I've already put inline to document them. My recommendation, architecture-wise, as others have said as well, would be to abstract your application into something like "MVCS" (Model, View, Controller, Services), which you may know as something else. What I did was separate my models into a separate class library, then separated my services into another library. From there, I use dependency injection with Ninject/Ninject MVC3 to hook my implementations up as needed, and simply use the interfaces to grab the data I need. Once I have my data (which is of course represented by my models), I do whatever is needed to adjust it for presentation, and send it back to the client. Coming from MVC3, I have one project that I ported to MVC4, which uses the "traditional" Razor markup and such, and a new project that will be a single page AJAX application using Backbone + Marionette and some other things sprinkled in. So far, the experience has been really great, it's super easy to use. I found some good tutorials on Backbone + Marionette here, although they can be a bit convoluted, and require a bit of digging through documentation to put it all together, it's easy once you get the hang of it: Basic intro to Backbone.js: <a href="http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/docs/1.html" rel="nofollow">http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/docs/1.html</a> Use cases for Marionette views (I found this useful when deciding how to create views for my complex models): <a href="https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette/wiki/Use-cases-for-the-different-views" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette/wiki/Use-cases-for-the-different-views</a>
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