First impressions of ASP.NET's MVC framework

ASP.NET development's presentation layer has traditionally been difficult; simply put, it isn't simple. The event model, for example, can confound even the most experienced developers.

For someone transitioning to ASP.NET from a system such as PHP or HTML, the idea of coding to respond to a button click instead of a form posting can be odd. And, of course, the View State has always had major drawbacks.

To address these issues, Microsoft has been working on an alternative for Web Forms called the MVC framework. On 10 September 2008, I attended a seminar presented by Brian Hitney of Microsoft at the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meeting. Brian did a good job explaining what the MVC framework is and why a developer would use it instead of Web Forms.

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