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September 29, 2009Brussels

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

Maarten Balliauwhttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be

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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

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What to expect…

• Lots of coding!– Lots of errors…

• Going fast!• Use of (some) ASP.NET MVC 2 preview 1

features– Templated Helpers– Validation

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Building an application

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

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ASP.NET MVC Wisdom?

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

440 M!

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Wisdom

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

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ASP.NET MVC 101Controller

(Input)

Model(Logic)

View(Presentation)

Request

Response

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TIME TO BUILD OUR APPLICATION…Fingers crossed…

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Takeaways• What’s new in MVC 2?

– Validation– Templated helpers

• Buddy classes• Some security considerations• Routing

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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

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Questions?

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THANK YOU!

Maarten Balliauwhttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be

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