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My MVC Experiment Part 2

By Arthur Correa • Author

What has gone before - I had some problems installing my blog software so decided to write my own.  Now what do I do?

Well my original idea was to implement this using ASP.Net Web Forms, couple that with a little Ajax action, some LINQ, man this will be so sweet I thought.

I started playing around with it, and in my travels of reading up on LINQ I came across some MVC stuff.  Hmm interesting, what is the new ASP.Net thing they're talking about.  Looks interesting.  I kind of like the way the files are laid out and how the pattern implementation ties them all together.

Wait a second.. Where are my Web Forms?  I'm used to Web Forms, this UI code looks like plain old HTML.  Bah who wants to do plain old HTML I thought.  The heck with that, I'm sticking with my web forms site that I started, couple it with a little Ajax action, some LINQ, its going to be soo sweet.

Wait a second, what's that?  MVC is the way of the future?  You mean its not just some fly by night thing that Microsoft is going to push out and forget about? I thought it was some sort of side project that some ASP.Net guys got together and whipped up as a sort of pet project.  Well I should probably learn it them.  Heck I can build the site in MVC and if I don't like it I can always do it again in Web forms.  The database and business objects will be the same, just a different UI skin.  No big deal.

You know what.  Now that the sites done, I don't want to do the Web Forms.  I actually like doing the MVC development more than I liked doing the Web Forms development that I've done in the past.