Mvc News & Articles

A community technology preview (CTP) of the upcoming SDL Tridion 2011 (news, site) is in progress right now and leaks of what it has improved upon and added are starting to surface.

When the beta for Visual Studio 2010 (news, site) first came out, it lacked the ability to create ASP.NET MVC applications. This was because Visual Studio was in lock down before MVC 1.0 was released.

There was a workaround, but it didn't give you the ability to create MVC apps, just look at them. But you likely wanted to do a heck of a lot more than just look at your code in Visual Studio 2010.

Now, says Phil Haack, you can.

Further evidence of Microsoft's growing commitment towards interoperability and open source -- the ASP.NET MVC source code has been released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 was officially released at MIX09 a couple of weeks ago. It provided developers with an alternative to developing ASP.NET applications using Web Forms. The Model-View-Controller approach is designed for tighter control over the application and provides the ability for Test Driven Development (TDD).

Haven't heard of the MS-PL? It is an OSI-approved open source license. According to Scott Guthrie's blog, the MS-PL license means "no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code".

This announcement follows the news that Microsoft's new Web Platform Installer will include PHP and the ability to download and install a number of open source web content management solutions.

Microsoft has also made SharePoint Designer 2007 free to download. It's not open source, but it's another step to demonstrating their desire to have developers work on their systems and to open doors to the greater open source community.

Can't wait to see what they do next.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC2 didn't stick around too long. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is officially available for download.

Not designed to be a replacement for ASP.NET Web Forms, the new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is simply an alternative approach that also enables test-driven development. This is the first time Microsoft has provided robust support for it in the hugely popular ASP.NET web technology framework.

You will want to consider the MVC pattern when you want full control over the application, have a big development team that can be split into different roles for the development process (i.e., user interface developers, business logic developers) and want to implement Test Driven Development (TDD) practices.

Not even expected, RC2 was really all about some improvements to the Installer: .NET Framework v3.5 SP1, and a Server-only Install. So it shouldn't really a surprise that the RTM has come out so quickly.

The ASP.NET MVC package works with Visual Studio 2008 and with the free Visual Web Developer 2008.

Getting ever so closer to the final release, Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of ASP.NET MVC is up for downloading. This new release candidate is all about the Installer and not so much about tooling or the runtime -- good news for those who have already invested serious learning time.

[Editor's Note:  ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now available for download.]

The gang at Microsoft has been working on the new ASP.NET MVC -- Model-View-Controller --  framework for a while. In February they announced the MVC Framework v0.1 Relelase Candidate 1 was available and there was very likely a flock of developers downloading it, anxious to see how it works.

We provided an overview of the framework when it was announced. The MVC pattern is designed to separate the user interface from the business logic of an application, resulting in easier testing of the application. The three components of this pattern are defined as follows:

• Model: Represents the state of an application, often mapping to a database table
• View: Displays the UI for the application
• Controller: Controls how the input into the UI is handled, manipulates the model and determines which UI to present to the user

For many .NET developers, the MVC framework is a completely new way of developing applications. An approach, very unfamiliar and maybe somewhat scary to take on.

Luckily experienced .NET developers joined together and wrote a book on the framework called Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0. Written by Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Rob Conery and Phil Haack for Wrox, the book provides a review of the basic concepts of the MVC framework, or pattern, how it differs from ASP Web Forms, explores the structure OOTB and more advanced concepts.

The book, available on Amazon, has not yet been released, but you are lucky enough to get a freebee that should entice you to buy it when it does become available. Guthrie, a Vice President in the MS Developer Division, kicks off the book with a full tutorial on building an MVC application -- called NerdsDinner. He says he agreed to write the chapter in return for Wrox's providing it as a free PDF download.

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license, you can download it and do with it what ever you want. The key is to learn this new framework quickly and easily.

So ahead, download your copy now, along with the source code and start learning how to write ASP.NET MVC applications.

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) concept has been around for quite awhile, but this is the first time Microsoft has provided robust support for it in the hugely popular ASP.NET web technology framework. Not designed to be a replacement for ASP.NET Web Forms, their MVC framework is simply an alternative approach that also enables test-driven development.

This first release candidate is expected to be the only release candidate, with the final, production build following close behind.

It’s a party in the Joomlasphere today, and you’re all invited. Joomla! 1.5 Stable has been pushed out the door. The release marks a new dawn in the evolution of the popular free open-source Web CMS.

There are two related reasons why it’s a big deal. The first is mostly symbolic: 1.5 marks the end of the road for a great deal of the old Mambo code. Second, there’s a hell of a lot of architectural and cosmetic changes.

So let’s have a look under the hood of Joomla! 1.5.

With Sun GPLv2’ing its Java software this week, a lot of focus is on the other open frameworks that have risen during the same era, and their comparative value in a post open source Java world. One such take is from well-known Sun insider, Tim Bray, who spoke at last week’s International PHP Conference in Germany.