1. Where Do I Go From Here?

2. Anupam Chakravarty Senior Software Engineer The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Vice-President Gwinnett, Georgia, Microsoft User Group GGMUG.com

3. Jeff Ammons Senior Software Engineer BlackBook aka National Auto Research President Gwinnett, Georgia, Microsoft User Group GGMUG.com Twitter: jeffa00

4. Agenda Intro PowerPoint Build Simple WebForms App Build Simple MVC App

5. What’s Up With MS Web Dev? Three Options WebForms/SharePoint MVC WebMatrix Which way should I go????

6. Will WebForms Die? Official Answer is “No” Practical Answer is “No” as well However… Lots of ASP.Net team members talking about MVC more than WebForms

7. Microsoft’s Positioning (Sweet Spots) Web Forms Internal Apps Dev Speed Crucial MVC External Websites “Slickness” Crucial WebMatrix Beginners Hobbyists

8. Layers And Options IIS.Net ASP WebForms MVC WebMatrix SharePoint Windows Server

9. Why The New Bits? Start Ups Students Consumers PERCEPTION Microsoft web efforts viewed as inferior/antiquated Soviet design VS Italian design

10. Which Do People See As Microsoft?

11. Ruby On Rails Lightweight Fast Encourages UI creativity

12. Webforms == Heavy Abstraction SUPER efficient for developers Controls Stateful Event Driven Hides nature of web HTTP Stateless Rapid development stressed over creative UI

13. MVC == Less Abstraction Less efficient for developers NO controls NO state NO events Exposes nature of web HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery/HTTP Creativity/control stressed over rapid development

14. Why Choose MVC? Separation of concerns Test Driven Development (Testability anyway) UI creativity Work more with HTML/CSS/JavaScript No controls to rely on

15. Why Choose WebForms? Rapid Application Development Tons of 3 rd party controls Don’t need to learn as much HTML/CSS/Javascript Existing Websites

16. Demo Let’s build a simple site WebForms MVC

17. Links http://www.asp.net/mvc http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-music-store- part-1 http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-music-store- part-1 http://ggmug.com http://galacticbeacon.com http://givecampatlanta.org http://funzietown.com