No brainer

TanzimSaqib
Software Architect Consultant
http://TanzimSaqib.com
Facebook: SaqibRocks | @TanzimSaqib
Microsoft MVP 2010, 2011

My Open Source Projects
Creator:
No Brainer (An MVC + CMS Framework: cross platform)
Cassini 4.0 (Tiny web server: Windows Forms)
MyStream (Social Streaming: ASP.NET)
News Framework (Windows Phone 7)
Contributor:
Dropthings

An MVC + CMS Framework
http://nobrainer.codeplex.com/

Caution:
This session assumes knowledge of MVC.

MVC Review

CMS Review
Content Management System
Primary objective:
Being able to feed/change content without requiring developers

Why NoBrainer?
A Framework for frustrated people:
As an Architect, you can’t feed MVC to your business stakeholders
because it is a very costly process
the decision is not in your hand
As a business stakeholder, you have a developer pool who are:
reluctant to changes
afraid of the learning curve of ASP.NET MVC

A Frustrated Pool of Developers Who…
Do not like to learn new technology
Learnt WebForms once and will never try to learn anything new again
They just can’t think of living without their favorite drag & drop WebForms environment
Anti-convention
Anti-patterns
Anti-testability
There are tons of people around us.
Including many in outsourcing companies

WebForms vs. MVC
Control vs. Flexibility
WebForms: Toolbox, and drag & drop
Rich designer
Familiar life cycle
Event based programming
MVC: freedom as long as you observe a convention
Testability
Natural to many agile practices
MVC has not come to take over the world of WebForms
Both will live. Live really long.

A Smart Business Stakeholder Wants…
Predictability and reliability
Hence, they want both control and convention
What are they going to get from a frustrated pool of developers?

NoBrainer Features
An MVC Framework that works with WebForms
Built-in CMS capability
Gradual upgrade
Testability of WebForms logic
Automatic View  Model  Controller mapping
Automatic Error binding
Strongly typed
Intellisense while coding
Built-in Caching mechanism
Content Combining
Can be extended to support different form factors of PC
Serves real production customer-base over millions
Easier to learn than ASP.NET MVC

Quick demo
Overview of NoBrainer

Easy Setup

Model
publicclassAccountModel : ModelBase{publicstringUserName { get; set; }publicstring Password { get; set; }publicstring Email { get; set; }publicboolPersistentCookieEnabled { get; set; }}

View (contd.)

View Codebehind

Controller

Content-driven

Demo
Browse features
Test code
Webtest
Unit test

NoBrainer Features (recap)
An MVC Framework that works with WebForms
Built-in CMS capability
Gradual upgrade
Testability of WebForms logic
Automatic View  Model  Controller mapping
Automatic Error binding
Strongly typed
Intellisense while coding
Built-in Caching mechanism
Content Combining
Can be extended to support different form factors of PC
Serves 5M production customers
Easier to learn than ASP.NET MVC

Content Combining
Outside scope of this presentation
An aspx is split into multiple HTML editable files
Each file can host combination of rich ASP.NET controls
Including Update Panels, nested and any combination of them
NoBrainer combines those files in sequence per request and serves as one
Example 1: aspx files can be served extensionlessly or even via html/htm
Example 2: html/htm is made capable of handling postbacks and server-side controls

Content Combining (a glimpse)
Header.html
Any ComplexNestedlevel control
hierarchy
SEO.ascx
User requests
No Brainer
ViewPost.htm
BlogContent.ascx
ViewPost.htm
Serves as a dynamic page
StaticAd
.aspx
Footer
.htm

Questions?
Contact:
http://TanzimSaqib
Facebook: SaqibRocks
@TanzimSaqib
http://nobrainer.codeplex.com

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