2010 08 Apr
Yesterday, I was attending a lecture about ASP.NET MVC 2 organized by Microsoft Lebanon in Beirut; the session successfully introduced one of the latest web technologies in our days.
The MVP Kris Van der mast started the session by defining the new design pattern and what are its goals and benefits, he mainly focused on the separation of concerns concept and the technical benefits of using MVC as testability, maintainability and mainly the ability of working within teams in parallel.
As the attendees were technical people the session went to code, its main target was to show the readability of the architecture and to demonstrate it using the Hands-On-Lab concept.
Kris demonstrated the main sections of an MVC project as well as the ability of the extensibility of these sections. MVC stands for Model-View-Controller so the developer can easily identify where to place/locate any piece of code within the project. Areas concept which is introduced in the MVC 2.0, templates, user controls, HTML helpers, routing and many other concepts were well explained.
Technically speaking the session was very successful, but in my point of view, Kris shouldn’t only focus on the coding level, it would have been much better if he had given few more minutes to show the creativity and the huge architecture concepts hidden behind the MVC, in all cases, you can find more about MVC abstract in my presentation that I conducted at ArabiaGIS three months ago.
A bientôt
It was really a good session, thanks J@F for the review, but as u said it was really better to show more some architecture concept as the IoC and DI. also i would recommend for Developers min 3inna that they should organize better the seats :) we were at the bottom of the hall, we didn't see anything :P Thanks again J@F, thanks for Kris, and thanks developers min 3inna we look forward for other sessions
Hi, it was targeted as an introduction session to the new features in ASP.NET MVC 2 and from what I heard up front most attendees hardly had any experience with MVC at all so I decided to leave out concepts which are beyond an introduction level and focus more on the capabilities of the core MVC framework itself. I certainly liked giving the presentation and hopefully can give another one the next time I visit your beautiful country. Grz, Kris.
Hey Kris, I would like to thank you for the successful session; honestly, it wasn’t titled as introduction to the new features of the MVC 2, on the contrary the title was an introduction to MVC 2, for this reason I was expecting that the session will cover more design concepts, but as you said it was a good idea to work directly with code as the majority of people was developers who doesn’t know the design pattern. Thanks again Kris, you are welcome anytime to Lebanon, and hope to attend your valuable sessions and follow you online.