Scott Guthrie discussed and presented the ASP.NET Model View Controller ( MVC ) Framework that his team is working on at the Alt.Net Conference. This is the same ASP.NET MVC Framework he showed off at the MVP Summit in 2007.
It appears we might see a public CTP by the end of the year and most likely a release after Visual Studio 2008.
I really like some of the goals mentioned by others at the conference:
- Natively support TDD model for controllers.
- Provide ASPX (without viewstate or postbacks) as a view engine
- Provide a hook for other view engines from MonoRail, etc.
- Support IoC containers for controller creation and DI on the controllers
- Provide complete control over URLs and navigation
- Be pluggable throughout
It sounds like extensibility is the key here, allowing everyone to use their own dependency injection tool of choice, like Windsor.
This is huge. This gets us away from having to use Model-View-Presenter, which is common in both the Web Client Software Factory and Smart Client Software Factory, which really serves as a bandaid since there is currently no way to do Model View Controller in ASP.NET.