ASP.NET MVC 3 and Some 4 JaxCodeCamp August 2011

Who Am I David Fekke Software Engineer DMEa Develop iOS software JaxDUG, JSSUG and JaxFusion

Alan Kay When I invented the term “Object- Oriented”, I did not have C++ in mind. I should have named it “Message- Oriented” instead of “Object-Oriented”

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. “ Bjarne Stroustrup

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.” Woz

80 Percent Statistic 80% software projects FAIL 80% of development is done as code maintenance 80% of statistics are completely useless

Fusebox Ruby On Rails DJango JSF Struts Grials.NET Nuke

Whats wrong with Web Forms in ASP.NET?

Web Forms lends to Spaghetti Code Difficult to maintain IDs get renamed Difficult to introduce Coding Standards

Tenets of Frameworks Single Responsibility Principle Convention over Configuration SES and URL routing Good use of Design Patterns Work within Test Driven Development (TDD) Enterprise Scalable Web Applications

MVC Design Pattern Separation of Concerns DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself Better concurrent development

.NET 1.0 introduced the Page Model and Code behind.NET 2.0 brought us Master Pages.NET 3.5 came with AJAX

MVC stands for Model View Controller

New Project Types in VS2008, 2010 Not replacing Web Forms Built on top of ASP.NET Automatic vs. Manual

Does not use Web Forms No Form Controls No Script Manager What is Missing

Controllers are a special class Controller Class always will have ‘Controller’ in the name Controllers contains action methods Controller Classes

Views Views are simple Use ViewData, ViewModel, ViewBag JQuery libs included Partial Views Html helper class

Model Anything you want Enterprise Framework ADO.NET NHibernate LINQ Entity Framework

Testing Framework built for Unit Testing Test Suite, NUnit or any other test framework

Routing Friendly URLs /products.aspx?categoryid=8 /products/puppies Search Engine Safe (SES)

ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor View engine Better Binding and Model Validation Unobtrusive Javascript Hooks for Dependency Injection Nuget!

Razor

Model Validation

Unobrusive JavaScript

Dependency Resolver Insert favorite DI framework here

Demo

ASP.NET MVC 4 Whats Next?

MVC 4 Roadmap Recipes (Super Scaffolding) Mobile Support Template changes AsycControllers (C# 5 asynchronous) CSS & Javascript bundling WebAPI

Orchard Project.NET Sponsored Open Source Project Content Management System Built on MVC 3 NHibernate Project Castle Autofac

Codeplex Nuget

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