Microsoft news about releasing products does not come from a news release any more, for the past 2 years Scott Guthrie breaks the news to the geek world. I hope he was in twitter or better yet at geotwitter.
Why is ASP.NET MVC lately so important to geeks? Is the new way to write web apps? Is the webforms not good anymore?
I don’t think that web forms is not important anymore, the big deal is that for first time, Microsoft is providing an open source from inside the house. ASP.NET MVC is the first open source project from Microsoft. To do that they gave a job to Phil Haack, a very well known guy on the open source world, creator of SubVersion. That funny enough after getting the job at Microsoft he went dark on the open source world!
He is working in a few fixes for SubText, and he is blogging here and there, however the ASP.NET MVC open source project is only one way, they release the code and we get it all, however, I was expecting a little more interaction and allowing non-Microsoft users to submit changes to the main branch. Maybe I was expecting too much. None less a great move by Microsoft to show interaction with the community, even when they grab something that was “very Java” to move it into .NET. Some say a genius move by Scott Guthrie.
ScottGu announcement and tutorial
Haacked announcement
Cheers
Al