Jess Chadwick
Thursday, May 9th, 2008 - 6:15 PM

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern is one that many developers are familiar with which separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC-based Web applications. It is a lightweight, highly testable framework that allows you to easily incorporate this pattern into your applications, helping to separate the different aspects  (input logic, business logic, and UI logic) into loosely-coupled and pluggable elements.

ASP.NET MVC is an alternative to standard ASP.NET Web Forms development, not a replacement.  In this presentation we'll explore the advantages that ASP.NET MVC has to offer, including:

• Maintaining a clear separation of concerns
• Facilitating Test-Driven Development
• More control over more aspects of your applications, particularly the URLs and the HTML you emit

Speaker Bio

Jess Chadwick is the Web Lead at Infragistics, responsible for keeping all their various web properties up and running.  He has over 7 years experience with .NET technologies ranging from embedded devices in startups to enterprise-scale web farms at Fortune 500s.  He is actively involved with the community, acting as Leader of the NJDOTNET Central New Jersey .NET user group and actively contributing to various open source projects such as CodeCampServer.  You can visit his blog at http://blog.jesschadwick.com.