.net - Learn MVC In A New Project, Or Stick With WebForms?
Dec 13, 2010
I'm a front-end guy who's picked up ASP.NET WebForms through working on various projects at my agency.I have a project with a developer in mind, and I want to use/learn MVC for it - but he thinks it not worth using MVC at all. His opinion is that the benefits of MVC are perceived, and that performance won't be an issue, and it better to just push forward with WebForms.
The project is a web app that will give people project planning tools, creation of a personal contact database, and their own basic website.My personal feelings are that I hate all the bloat that comes with WebForms sites - the ViewState, the one , the enormous JS files, the lack of control of markup (e.g. validation controls).Obviously, ASP.NET WebForms is linked to resources, but MVC is about URL structures and interpreting them.
After discussion and research I'm thinking now that because of the supposedly large transition/learning curve of MVC, it really is better to just stay with WebForms.I watched Ryan Singer work with RoR MVC in person, and I was stunned at how rapid everything was to develop.Should I just accept that it's more pragmatic and productive to keep with WebForms now, and not use MVC, or should I find a way of convincing my co-worker that MVC is the right thing to do?
Few months I've started learning ASP.NET MVC 1.0. Although hard in the beginning, now I've made huge progress so that I'm working on something serious I can show to my colleagues. But, now MVC 2 is almost out there. Now I would like to know if MVC 1.0 and MVC 2 are profoundly different. In fact, I wonder if I need (first) to finish what I am into or (secondly) I need to stop everything and learn first MVC 2. To illustrate my point, I'd say: Is migrating from MVC 1.0 to MVC 2 the same scale as migrating from Web Form to MVC 1.0
We have a legacy ASP.NET webforms application that we're engaged in stabilising and removing technical debt from. Is it possible to take a hybrid approach - ie, can ASP.NET MVC coexist with webforms within the same web-project? Are there any gotchas for that? If it is possible, I assume one just has to initialise the routes table, register the ASP.NET MVC handlers,
I have a good amount of knowledge in the ASP.NET Webforms and MVC worlds. Shortly I will be tasked with implementing custom web applications with Sharepoint. I have great flexibility with this project (i.e - I can use custom web apps outside of Sharepoint if that's possible) but like most projects the most limiting factor I have to deal with is time.
Here are some questions that come to mind:
Can I easily integrate a custom MVC project into Sharepoint 2010? What are the pros and cons if I can? Same as #1 only with Webforms. If #1 and #2 are not viable solutions, can I easily create custom web applications within the Sharepoint world? What will the learning curve be with my background? I understand developers can now use Windows 7 to deliver Sharepoint 2010 solutions. It looks like I can use a trial of Microsoft Sharepoint Foundations 2010. If that's correct, are there any development differences or gotchas I need to be aware of before digging into the Foundation version? I don't want to get up to speed on Foundation and then find out that the Server edition (the version that will be deployed) is vastly different.
I have worked almost for a year now on PHP. I was using C#.NET for my academic projects. But, i am getting offers to switch to ASP.NET/C# these days. Would leaving my current platform be fruitful? My familiarity with Open Source technologies is deep & couldn't decide what should i do with these offers.
I'm building a website that just allow each person in my office to access the page from their own PC placed at the office only. It looks like I need to identify a client from within the codes on the ASP.net web server. How can I do this?
I have no experience in ASP.NET development.We have installed a Webmail product from Afterlogic. we have to remove the markup for a logout button. but we are not able to edit the .aspx files. we can remove the markup for the button compleately.but it is still there on the page when we refresh.Do we have to recompile the whole thing each time we make a change ? Is this some sort of cache problem ? We have tried to delete the browser cache. but it had no effect.
i have a custom membership provider and do manual validation of the user when they log in and set a persistent cookie with this bit of code: FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(this.txtEmail.Text, this.cbRememberMe.Checked);
The cookie gets set fine. I can tell it has all the data it needs by looking at it in Fiddler once im validated. However coming back to the site im always getting prompted to log in again. I am starting to think the problem isn't how im saving the cookie but that maybe my custom membership isn't acutally looking for this auth cookie again. Or im naming it wrong or something.
Two things
1) My membership provider is custom and NOT added to web.config - it's a .cs file that connects to a CMS back end for the validation and it works fine logging people in and such it just never keeps (or uses) the persistent cookie.
NOTE: the persistence doesn't work anywhere (on my local machine / staging server or live server - Application name is simply "/")
NOTE 2: as an aside we have a google search applicance. Which we baked a 10 year cookie for on this site - we opened up the cookie and used the encrypted string in the google search appliance (this is how you get it to get past logins, etc) and this thing works great- it logs itself in no problem all the time. SO i am a bit lost as to why a user with an almost identical cookie is not getting logged in.
I have this code that loop through table controls how do stick the seleted information into a session variable. Then i have to pass it into another page table control.example code
i have a menu bar in my master page that is made up of 4 hyperlinks with background images that are being set using css. on hover-over, these images are swapped out, also by css. so each menu item (hyperlink) has two images, a static image and a hover-over image. when a user clicks one of the menu items and is taken to that page, i would like that hover-over image to "stick" for that page. here's my code:
When I turn on Code Coverage in my test settings, on a project that references the Unity DI container I get the following error:
Cannot initialize the ASP.NET project'{Project Name}'.
The event log specifies the following reason:
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Practices.Unity, Version=2.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. Strong name signature could not be verified.
just wanted to know what are the requirements to learn asp.net i mean i know that you need to know any .net language ( i am for C#). But do u need to also know xhtml, CSS and all other stuff.
It does not matter for me which background I come from, I want to learn the best. Which is best to learn ASP.NET web forms or ASP.NET MVC and please be specifc and give me a reason?
Which Programming Language Should I Learn? Best language to learn (for a solo web designer looking to program) Is there a general guideline of which dynamic programming language to choose to start with?
At the moment I am starting to learn Silverlight. I have expriences in ASP.NET and like the concepts of "Masterpages. Does Silverlight provides a similar concept ? I have read a little bit about the Silverlight Navigation Framework. Is this a good replacement for "Masterpages" ?
Makes it sense to combine ASP.NET and HTML (with Javascript) with Silverlight or is it more recommandable to design and write pure Silverlight applications ? Mybe in the ner future I will start to develop an intranet (business) application which will have many and complex user interaction (it should behave like a windows client applicion). I think Silverlight is the better choice than ASP.NET !? Makes it sense also to start to use/learn the WCF RIA Services immediatly ? Are there good (VS) templates to start with Silverlight or which are a good basis / starting point for a new Silverlight application ? Unfortunately I am missing "Starter kits" on [URL] like the starter kits on www.asp.net !
I'm trying to learn the Enterprise Library. I found this useful code sample to get data from a SQL database. But I tried to send data via a parameter. I'm also using the UPDATE, DELETE, and SAVE methods. Can you give me a similar sample? I'm using Enterprise Library 4.0.
I'm going to be working on an application where I would like to provide an option to sync some things with quickbooks (i.e. add customer or invoice in web app, click button sync to quickbooks). I'm having trouble finding a good tutorial or sample code to use asp.net (preferably in vb.net but I can convert it) to exchange the information. I have the quickbooks sdk and the web connector installed, but I'm not sure where to start. I wanted to try to learn how the quickbooks part would work before I got to far into the app and find out the data structure was wrong.
I'm trying to implement a small server/client web service to understand the fundamentals of WCF. I've created both the client and the server and so far have them communicating with each other through a very simple getter method. I've added in a database to the server and have a LINQ to SQL connection (I'm not sure if that's the proper terminology).
What I would like to know is, where can I learn the fundamentals now, for example: returning the number of rows into the client console window and using the basic CRUD functions from the client to update the database? I don't want to go to deep to soon, as I would like a bit of a foundation to work off before it starts to get really complex.
