Introduction to the ASP.

NET MVC Framework

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MVC

Intro

Goodness

Maintain Clean Separation of Concerns

Easy Testing Red/Green TDD Highly maintainable applications by default

Extensible and Pluggable

Support replacing any component of the system

Goodness

Enable clean URLs and HTML

SEO and REST friendly URL structures

Great integration within ASP.NET

Support both static and dynamic languages

Whats the Point?

This is not Web Forms 4.0

Its about alternatives. Car vs. Motorcycle. Extend it, add IOC. Or not. If the shoe pinches, dont wear it.

Simple or as complex as you like

Fundamental

Part of System.Web and isnt going anywhere. Feel free to use NHibernate for Models, Brail for Views and Whatever for Controllers. Be Happy.

Plays Well With Others

MVC

A Little More Detail

Browser requests /Products/ Route is determined Controller is activated Method on Controller is invoke Controller does some stuff Renders View, passing in custom ViewData URLs are rendered, pointing to other Controllers

Even More Detail Request Flow

You can futz at each step in the process

Demo Hello MVC World

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MVC

How it works

Basic Controller Handling

Scenarios, Goals and Design

URLs route to controller actions, not pages mark actions in Controller. Controller executes logic, chooses view.

[ControllerAction] public void ShowPost(int id) { Post p = PostRepository.GetPostById(id); if (p != null) { RenderView("showpost", p); } else { RenderView("nosuchpost", id); } }

Basic Views

Scenarios, Goals and Design:

Are for rendering/output.

Pre-defined and extensible rendering helpers

Can use .ASPX, .ASCX, .MASTER, etc. Can replace with other view technologies:

Template engines (NVelocity, Brail, ). Output formats (images, RSS, JSON, ). Mock out for testing. Loosely typed or strongly typed data

Controller sets data on the View

URL Routing Pretty URIs

Developers adds Routes to a global RouteTable Mapping creates a RouteData - a bag of key/values

protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { RouteTable.Routes.Add(new Route { Url = "Blog/bydate/[year]/[month]/[day]", Defaults = new { controller="blog", action="showposts" }, Validation = new { year=@"\d{1,4}", month= @"\d{1,2}", day = @"\d{1,2}"} }); RouteTable.Routes.Add(new Route { Url = "[controller]/[action]/[id]", RouteHandler = typeof(MvcRouteHandler) }); }

Demo Routing
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MVC

How To TEST IT

Interfaces and TDD

Mockable Intrinsics

IHttpContext, IHttpResponse, IHttpRequest IController IControllerFactory IRouteHandler IView IViewFactory

Extensibility

Testing Controller Actions

No requirement to mock out full [TestMethod] ASP.NET runtime. public void ShowPostsDisplayPostView() {

TestPostRepository repository = new TestPostRepository(); TestViewFactory viewFactory = new TestViewFactory(); BlogController controller = new BlogController(); controller.ShowPost(2); Assert.AreEqual("showpost", viewFactory.LastRequestedView); Assert.IsTrue(repository.GetPostByIdWasCalled); Assert.AreEqual(2, repository.LastRequestedPostId);

Controller Factory

Scenarios, Goals and Design:

Hook creation of controller instance

Dependency Injection. Object Interception.

public interface IControllerFactory { IController CreateController(IHttpContext context, RouteData routeData, Type controllerType); } protected void Application_Start(object s, EventArgs e) { ControllerBuilder.Current.SetDefaultControllerFactory( typeof(MyControllerFactory)); }

View Factory

Scenarios, Goals and Design:

Mock out views for testing Replace ASPX with other technologies

public interface IViewFactory { IView CreateView(IHttpContext context, RouteData routeData, string viewName, string layoutName, object viewData); } Inside controller class: ViewFactory = new XmlViewFactory(...); RenderView("foo", myData);

Demo TDD
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Demo Dynamic Data Controls

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Not DDE. Scared you, didnt I?

Demo ImageGen
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Demo Ruby View Engine & Python Controller

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Its a kinder, gentler Microsoft. No seriously. Hug?

Demo XML-RPC
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SOAP is for dorks.

Conclusion

This is not Web Forms 4.0

Its about alternatives. Car vs. Motorcycle. Extend it, add IOC. Or not. If the shoe pinches, dont wear it.

Simple or as complex as you like

Fundamental

Part of System.Web and isnt going anywhere. Feel free to use NHibernate for Models, Brail for Views and VB for Controllers. Be Happy.

Plays Well With Others

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