I posted last week asking for thoughts on whether or not to use WebForms or one of the alternatives out there as a View Engine for an MVC app that I’m working on on the side. I was a little bit harsh in my criticism, and said that I was actually leaning towards NOT using WebForms at all.
Based on some of the feedback I’ve gotten to that question (mostly offline, with the exception of some good thoughts from Scott…thanks), I thought about this quite a bit over the weekend, and even did some playing around with it, and I think I’ve come to a conclusion.
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I’m currently in the planning stages for a web application that I’m planning on building on top of the ASP.NET MVC extensions, and am trying to figure out which view engine would be best.
The three that I’ve looked at so far have been the standard ASP.NET WebForms, NVelocity and NHaml. I kinda like what I see in NVelocity and NHaml, but the documentation and support appears to be a little bit lacking. I had a hard time trying to figure out how to get started and up-and-running with either of them (though I’m sure I could figure it out if I spent more than an hour or so with either one). So for the most part, I’ve been kinda leaning towards just using WebForms.
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So, its been a long time (has it been over a year, really?) since I’ve been to one of the Dayton .NET Developers Group meetings. I got the notification last week about the upcoming meeting, and it reminded me of how much I used to enjoy going to those meetings. So I worked it out with my wife to go to tonight’s meeting.
Now, I have to be completely honest here…the biggest motivator for me in going to the meeting tonight was the fact that they were giving away free copies of Visual Studio 2008. Why was that my primary motivation? Mostly because the topic for the meeting didn’t sound exceptionally exciting: “A lap around Visual Studio 2008″. Oh no…I’ve heard that one before. A bunch of marketing speak about all of the “fabulous” new features of the IDE that make developers lives “easier”. You know the stuff I’m talking about…the designer enhancements, the wizards, the “look-how-much-I-can-do-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code” kind of presentation. Blah blah blah…I’ve heard it all before. And I was right.
Partially.
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Scott Hanselman:
In a recent MVC design meeting someone said something like “we’ll need a Repeater control” and a powerful and very technical boss-type said:
“We’ve got a repeater control, it’s called a foreach loop.”
That is EXACTLY the kind of thinking that has me so excited about the MVC extensions to ASP.NET.
