Try a little MVC
Posted in .net, mvc on July 16th, 2010 by Geoff McIlraith – Comments OffI usually have a deep mistrust of people expounding the latest technologies, but lately I’ve been doing a lot of work using the new MVC framework for ASP.NET, and I have to say….finally!….a framework that is easily understandable, hugely pragmatic, and productive.
Actually, I feel a bit duped. Many years ago when web programming was all new and super flash, Microsoft came to the rescue with ASP which promised to help us poor desktop programmers program for the web without having to learn a new framework (or was paradigm the buzzword de jour back then?).
Interestingly, the more I work with nice simple frameworks like jQuery and MVC, the more I look critically at ASP.NET Webforms and think it is a really complicated answer to a pretty simple problem. And this thought direction is contagious…now I’m looking at event driven programming and thinking about how it obfuscates the intent of the user interface code. And how databinding never works first time, and would be much simpler if you coded it yourself. And how ASP.NET update panels almost always result in page validation failures. And how the enterprise library validation framework is hurting me on one of my current projects…
So, I’ve been putting it to the test. The last couple of sites I have developed have been MVC2 and jQuery, Google Maps API, easy on the brain, light on frameworks, have developed rapidly, have been agile, have been well received by the client and have made me smile every time I’ve worked on them.
Am I a hippie?