Scott Gu has all the details.  I’ve been waiting for the beta release before I really started digging into this MVC framework.  I am a Web Forms guy; but I have been waiting for a “structured framework” to come instead of dropping controls on a page and writing UI code behind each page. Based on all of the reading that I have seen, I like what I see.

For a purely web forms developer, which I am not, don’t expect to get all the fancy controls like GridViews, Validation controls, Login Controls, etc, like you would get out of the box in a web forms project. With ASP.NET MVC, HTML is your friend and if you are intimidated by writing HTML, then you probably shouldn’t be a web developer in the first place. However, this is the concept of HTML Helpers that you can use to assist you in generating pretty much all of the HTML input controls just by using some script code; but it is not mandatory. 

So, this will be a breath of fresh air for me. I am working on a  project now and I will be developing it using the MVC framework. I like working with new stuff and hopefully I will be able to share my experience as I go along. Until next time…

 

Happy Coding!