MSDN Magazine - March 2008 - (Page 42)

Chris Ta v a r e s A S P. N E T M V C Building Web Apps Without Web Forms have been a professional developer for about 15 years now and a hobbyist for at least 10 years before that. Like most of my generation, I started out on 8-bit machines and then moved on to the PC platform. Working my way up through machines of increasing complexity, I wrote apps that did everything from small games to personal data management to controlling external hardware. For the first half of my career, however, all the software I wrote had one thing in common: it was always local applications running on a user’s desktop. In the early ’90s I started hearing about this new thing called the World Wide Web. I saw an opportunity here to build a Web application that let me enter my timecard information without actually having to schlep back to my office from the work site. The experience was, in a word, baffling. Coming to grips with the stateless Web just didn’t click with my desktop-oriented mindset. Add lousy debugging, a UNIX server I didn’t have root access to, and that weird angle bracket stuff, and my younger self shamefully dove back into desktop development for several more years. I stayed away from Web development; it was obviously important, but I didn’t really understand the programming model. Then the Microsoft® .NET Framework and ASP.NET were released. Finally, here was a framework that let me work on Web applications, yet it was almost like programming desktop applications. I could build 42 msdnmagazine windows (pages), hook up controls to events, and the designer kept me from having to deal with those darn angle brackets. And best of all, ASP.NET automatically handled the stateless nature of the Web for me with view state! I was a happy programmer again at least for a while. As my experience grew, so did my choices in design. I’d learned This article is based on a prerelease version of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Details herein are subject to change. This article uses the following technologies: ASP.NET This article discusses: Model View Controller pattern ✥ Creating controllers and views ✥ Building forms and posting back ✥ Controller factories and other extensibility points ✥ Code download available at: msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/code08.aspx Chris Tavares is a Developer on the Microsoft patterns & practices team, where he works to help the development community understand the best practices for building systems on Microsoft platforms. He is also a virtual member of the ASP.NET MVC team, helping to design the new framework. Chris can be contacted at cct@tavaresstudios.com. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/code08.aspx

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MSDN Magazine - March 2008 Contents Toolbox CLR Inside Out Data Points Advanced Basics Office Space Introducing ASP.NET MVC Loosen Up CI Server Performance Office Development Test Run Security Briefs Extreme ASP.NET Foundations .NET Matters {End Bracket}

MSDN Magazine - March 2008

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