Talk: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

panjkov — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:47:00 GMT

Yesterday I was speaking on Banjaluka INETA User Group Meeting about ASP.NET MVC. It was introductory presentation where I tried to address only basic functionalities of ASP.NET MVC. PowerPoint I created is compiled from Stephen Walther, Scott Guthrie, Peter Laudati and Jeffrey Palermo presentations and presentation about Routing from .NET FX Enhancements Training Kit. It also contains two demos where second one is “Photo Albums” application with basic functionalities. In this demo I use some free photos taken from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/. Presentation PowerPoint and demo are on my SkyDrive storage(due to the some weird error that struck me every time i tried to upload it on asp.net weblogs, probably file is too large)

LANACO sponsored this event with presentation room, which was filled entirely, and Microsoft Bosnia and Herzegovina sponsored us with drink. We also have exclusive to be first displaying book “Beginning ASP.NET MVC” written by Simone Chiaretta and Keywan Nayyeri. Here is a followup by Simone.

Here are some photos from this event:

New ASP.NET MVC related videos and tutorials

panjkov — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 GMT

As Stephen Walther announced on his blog, there are 15 new videos and 8 new tutorials in ASP.NET MVC posted on ASP.NET website. Videos are separated in 2 different tracks:

"How Do I" videos
"ASP.NET MVC Pair Programming" videos

and have separate target audiences. "How Do I" videos are targeted to beginners in the ASP.NET MVC Framework and their purpose is to describe basic tasks and features of ASP.NET MVC. Second set is targeted to developers that want to learn ASP.NET MVC in TDD-based approach, and in this series Stephen is doing pair programming sessions with Charlie Poole, developer of NUnit framework (http://nunit.org/), developing blog sample application.

Besides these videos, 8 new tutorials in VB or C# on ASP.NET MVC are covering (stolen from website):

I already watched two videos from "How Do I" series and my first impressions are excellent. Both videos code was in VB. Although I am C# developer, I had no difficulties to understand code and philosophy behind those videos. Stephen is really a excellent teacher and his explanations alre concise and understandable.

I already created sample code in C# for "Creating Model Classes with LINQ to SQL" video and posted it to my website http://panjkov.qsh.eu/. (It is on freehosting, so if I encounter high amount of requests, I'll transfer it somewhere else).

My general impression is that things around MVC are rolling, and it seems that Microsoft has directed ASP.NET MVC ship in the right direction. We'll see what will happen in the future, but today is excellent :) I only hope that they will not change its name to something long and recognizable, as pointed by Scott.

Dragan Panjkov : sample

Talk: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

New ASP.NET MVC related videos and tutorials