In my current gig, I was surprised to find when I started that there were front-end and back-end developers. The front-side guys are mostly HTML, CSS and Javascript (actually, mostly jQuery) folks, while the back-end folks do all of the wiring up and heavy lifting on the server type stuff. Most of the...

Using the MVC framework on a real, if somewhat trivial, project has been a lot of fun so far. It's unlike me to wait for something to go final, but as I Google problems I encounter, it's good to see that I avoided a great many moving targets. That said, I've always enjoyed building custom controls. Sometimes...

A couple of month ago, I wrote a post about the surprising advantage of MVC as an enabling technology for front end folks . The more I work with it, the more I feel that it's the key advantage to using MVC. Given my rants on why I think the user experience is so important , you can understand why I'm...

ASP.NET MVC: From Webforms to MVC by Jeff Putz The following is a barely-edited draft from the forthcoming book that will explore Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC framework from the view of a traditional Webforms developer. This chapter goes over the basic plumbing of the framework, while subsequent chapters...

Some good stuff: (Thanks Scott) May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. You can also now...

After a great deal of soul searching ( and a PDF draft of chapter 1 posted ), I've decided that I'm not going to follow through on this book. I've got a total of four chapters, two of which are at 75%, but there are a number of reasons that I've decided to focus my attention elsewhere. The biggest issue...

I read a good post today about the silly wars that go on in versus debates, in this case the arguments about whether to use Webforms or MVC for ASP.NET . I kind of saw this storm coming when people started describing themselves as part of the alternative "movement" in the ASP.NET community. The truth...

Coming from the Webforms world, the thing you might miss most when using ASP.NET MVC is the ability to create rich Web controls that generate all kinds of markup and do nifty things. HTML helpers do similar work, even if their plumbing is different, and because we can see the full source code of the...

I've been thinking a lot about all of the frameworks we have now to use with our, uh, frameworks. There's a framework to solve every problem. Dependency injection frameworks are of particular interest to a lot of people because they make unit testing ridiculously easy. They're also well suited to something...

Wow, so I keep talking about how I want to write more, particularly now that I'm an "insider" working in Redmond, and yet it has been a month since my last post. But hey, I've been here two months and I just finally spent some time in downtown Seattle for the first time last weekend, so get off my case...