Stephen Walther
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft

Overview of this Talk
What is ASP.NET MVC?
Build a Contact Manager Application

What is ASP.NET MVC?
Microsoft’s Newest Framework for Building Web
Applications
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released During MIX (about
two months ago)

What is ASP.NET MVC?
ASP.NET ASP.NET ASP.NET ASP.NET
Web Forms MVC AJAX Dynamic Data
ASP.NET Framework
.NET Framework

What is ASP.NET MVC?
Model
Business and Data Access
Logic
View
View logic
Controller
Application flow logic

What is ASP.NET MVC?
Invented in 1978 for Smalltalk by Trygve
Reenskaug

What is ASP.NET MVC?
Used by lots of frameworks including
Struts
Tapestry
Spring
Ruby on Rails
Merb
Monorail
Django

What is ASP.NET MVC?
Enables you to build applications that are
resilient to change:
Build Loosely Coupled Applications
Build Testable Applications

Build a Contact Manager Application
Walkthrough #1
Build Create, Read, Update, Delete actions

Build a Contact Manager Application
Walkthrough #2
Use the default model binder

Build a Contact Manager Application
Walkthrough #3
Add simple validation

Build a Contact Manager Application
Walkthrough #4
Refactor using software design patterns

Software Design Patterns
Controller Layer
Application flow control
Service Layer
Business logic (validation logic)
Repository Layer
Data access logic

Build a Contact Manager Application
Walkthrough #5
Create unit tests

Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development is a software design
methodology:
Red – Create a failing test
Green – Write just enough code to pass the test
Refactor – Improve the design of your code

Test-Driven Development
Benefits:
Keeps you focused on the right task:
YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It)
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Continuous Feedback
Take short steps and get continuous feedback that you
are on the right path.
Incremental Design
Design becomes part of the development process instead
of something done by an architect

Build a Contact Manager Application
Walkthrough #6
Add Ajax

Summary
ASP.NET MVC enables you to build loosely-
coupled, highly-testable web applications that
can be easily modified over time.

Resources
www.ASP.net/mvc -- The official Microsoft
website for all things ASP.NET MVC
StephenWalther.com – My blog on ASP.NET
MVC
Haacked.com – Phil Haack is the Program
Manager for ASP.NET MVC

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