The first bits of ASP.NET MVC were introduced in October 2007, at the first ALT.NET Conference by Scott Guthrie, and it then took almost 2 year to reach the stability need for the first release. In total we can say that ASP.NET MVC is being used by the general public… Continue reading
View Engine is responsible for rendering the view into html form to the browser. By default, Asp.net MVC support Web Form(ASPX) and Razor View Engine. There are many third party view engines (like Spark, Nhaml etc.) that are also available for Asp.net MVC. Now, Asp.net MVC is open source and… Continue reading
When you create an ASP.NET MVC Web application project, MVC components are separated based on the project folders shown in the following illustration: By default, MVC projects include the following folders: App_Data, which is the physical store for data. This folder has the same role as it does in ASP.NET… Continue reading
The ASP.NET MVC framework provides the following features: Separation of application tasks (input logic, business logic, and UI logic), testability, and test-driven development (TDD). All core contracts in the MVC framework are interface-based and can be tested by using mock objects, which are simulated objects that imitate the behavior of… Continue reading
This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. Starting to work on both a series of webcasts and articles and doing some preparatory work, collecting information on the various features and extensibility… Continue reading
URL routing was a capability we first introduced with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1, and which is already used within ASP.NET MVC applications to expose clean, SEO-friendly “web 2.0” URLs. URL routing lets you configure an application to accept request URLs that do not map to physical files. Instead, you can use routing… Continue reading