ASP.NET MVC WisdomBuilding a Real-World Application in 60 minutes

Maarten Balliauwhttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be

Who am I?

• Maarten Balliauw• Antwerp, Belgium• www.realdolmen.com • Focus on web

– ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Azure, VSTS, …– MVP ASP.NET

• http://blog.maartenballiauw.be • http://twitter.com/maartenballiauw

What to expect…

• Lots of coding!– Lots of errors…

• Going fast!• Use of (new!) ASP.NET MVC 2 features

– Templated Helpers– Validation

Building an application

Twitter clone• Twitter: What are you doing?• Visiter: What are you browsing?

ASP.NET MVC Wisdom?

• 60 minutes is not long…• Not going to live-code everything• Twitter crappy in the beginning, now worth $

440 M!

Wisdom

"MVC actually stands for Model-View-ChuckNorris. Controller is just one of his nicknames."

ASP.NET MVC 101Controller

(Input)

Model(Logic)

View(Presentation)

Request

Response

TIME TO BUILD OUR APPLICATION…Fingers crossed…

Takeaways• What’s new in MVC 2?

– Validation– Templated helpers

• Buddy classes• Some security considerations• Routing

Resources• “ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly”

http://tinyurl.com/mvcquickly

• My bloghttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be/category/MVC.aspx

• Microsofthttp://www.asp.net/mvc

• Community projectshttp://mvccontrib.codeplex.comhttp://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com

Questions?

THANK YOU!

Maarten Balliauwhttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be