Colin Bowern - The Not So Scary Side Of Asp.Net – Model View Controller In The Real World

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The Not-So-Scary Side of ASP.NETModel View Controller in the Real World
Colin Bowern
colin@bowern.com
@colinbowern
www.colinbowern.com

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Where does MVC fit?
ASP.NET
Dynamic Data
Presentation
ASP.NET
WebForms
ASP.NET
MVC
ASP.NET
Core
Runtime

Controller
(Input)
Model
(Logic)
View
(Presentation)
MVC in a Nutshell

MVC in a Nutshell
Controller
Controller
Handles input
(HTTP requests)
Request
View
Visually represents
the model
View
Response

File | New | voilà!
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Key Tenants of ASP.NET MVC

Models, Views, And Controllers, Oh MY!
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Getting Data into the Controller
Request
Controller
ModelBinders
Incoming Values
Query string
Route
Form
Duties
Re-hydrate request into parameters
Perform basic validation

Passing the dutchie
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ASP.NET Runtime
ASP.NET MVC

Run It Here, There and Everywhere

Resources
Microsoft Starting Points
http://microsoft.com/web
http://asp.net/mvc
http://aspnet.codeplex.com
http://codeplex.com/MVCContrib
Community Starting Points
http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/asp.net+mvc
http://haacked.com/
http://stackoverflow.com