I was invited by Patrick to speak in Tech Insights 2010. My topic is "ASP.NET MVC with jQuery - tips and tricks". I can say the topic take focus on Web Developer and developers or for those like to know more about ASP.NET. However, if you concerns about the design of application, MVC is one of the pattern that suitable for it.
MVC is acronym for Model View Controller. It is a kind of art of programming that stated how should your application be separated in term of layers. It also allow the developer to test each of component individually since it also promotes separation of concerns. It also allow me to implement TDD or Test Driven Development in the projects and it allow all the component to be tested before any other functional or system test.
Model can be related to Data Model and Domain Model. Data Model is the layer that capsuled the logic how the application should access database.View is the presentation layer and it present how should the information formed and visible to the user. For example, if the user have 1000 or more of student records, I can present it as a table, a repeated list, and even you can put some filter such as age filter, performance filter to allow the teacher to do some filtering on the information and let them find what they want instantly. The View also define how the user interact with the system or application. The design of View is important as it can leads to how is the productivity of a user. For example, the application is efficient if a click can trigger an action compare to another application that needs 3 clicks to trigger the action. The Controller receives input and initiates a response by making calls on model objects. A controller will get the input based on the user and instructs the model and viewport to perform actions based on that input
ASP.NET MVC is a framework that adopts MVC framework and it is still built on top of ASP.NET. The ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is better than 1.0 as it have more features. ASP.NET MVC is flexible enough to allow developers build their own View Engine and also Controller Factory. You are allow to use MEF, Unity and other IoC framework or Service Locator framework to build them. Some of the existing View Engine that you can download or use such as Spark, NDJango and so on.
I bet you use jQuery before. If not you may goto http://jquery.com/ to grab a copy to use it in your web application. I will say the learning curve of this framework is minimum compare to others. What is jQuery? jQuery is created by John Resig. It is a Javascript framework to speed up your development and eliminate your lines of code. Microsoft already integrated jQuery framework into Visual Studio since few years back. I will say it really help all web developers eliminates big collection lines of code. I was a web developer and I know the pain to write script and dealing with the DOM. jQuery really helps me a lot in my web development since few years back in some of the projects.
For example, the single line of code that shown below find the paragraph elements that with neat class name and add the new "ohmy" class name into it and at last it show this invisible element slowly. I can still remembered I wrote more than 5 lines to do the same task! So now can you imagine the power of jQuery?
$("p.neat").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");
jQuery is more than that. The creator of jQuery is smart and allow jQuery to be extended by everyone. He allows everyone to unleash their creativity. So please stay tune to see how I use the jQuery to build a more friendly eStore. I hope everyone will like it. Please left me some comments if you want to know more!
