1. ASP.NET Model View Controller

2. About Max  Senior Consultant at Tallan  Certifications  MCSD –.NET  MCTS – SharePoint Application Development  Member of the Enterprise.NET and SharePoint Initiatives at Tallan  max.weber@tallan.com max.weber@tallan.com

3. About Tallan  Founded in 1985 and Headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT  Offices in: California, NYC, Tampa, and Boston  Over 100 technology consultants with a wide range of expertise and knowledge  Emphasis on current technology trends and talent  Specialize in Custom Application Development, Business Intelligence, Portals, Content Management, and Custom Application Development

4. Agenda  Why do developers care about this framework?  What is it? A view from an experienced ASP.net developer.  Release Status  How to get started? IDE, framework downloads, and extensions  Demo – Creating a working MVC application

5. Why the ASP.net MVC?  Clear Separation of Concerns  Testability  Clean URLs

6. Why the ASP.net MVC?  Clear Separation of Concerns

7. Why the ASP.net MVC?  Testability

8. Why the ASP.net MVC?  Clean URLs http://myapp/customers/brown/ Are M U C H better than… http://myapp/customers.aspx?name=brown

9. What is the ASP.net MVC?  MVC Design Pattern  Model – maintain state  View – present the user interface  Controller – serves as the “glue” between Model and View.  REST – Representational State Transfer  No Post-Back Model

10. What is the ASP.net MVC?

11. Release Status  1 st CTP Released Feb 29 th 2008  2 nd CTP Released March 19 th 2008  3 rd CTP Released May 27 th 2008  4 th CTP Released July 16 th 2008  5 th – Current CTP Release  ETA on Final Release Candidate - tbd

12. Getting Started  Visual Studio 2008 Professional or higher  3.5.NET Framework  MVC Extensions

13. Demo Time  Simple Store Application  View Products  Create New Products  Update MSRP  Audience Participation  Name your demo

14. Research  Reference & Sites Researched  ASP.NET / MVC  Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC  Phil Haack's: MVC History Lesson  Scott Hanselman's Walkthrough Video  Scott Gu  MS Enterprise Patterns book

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