I am excited to have Phil Haack present to the Community For MVCvirtual Usergroup. He is going to be presenting on the MVC 2 features. Now that it has been released, I hope anyone using MVC 1 gets their projects updated right now!
To get the most out of the Community for MVC meeting, get out your old gaming headset with the microphone, because we take live audience questions in the name of learning! So come prepared and enjoy.
If you have not heard of the C4MVC group before and you are doing ASP.Net MVC. Then you need to go checkout all of the previous meetings. We record the sessions and make them available on the website.
David Ebbo presented to the Community For MVC group today. The topic T4MVC which is a project that David developed as a way to eliminate the magic string in Views and Controllers in the ASP.Net MVC framework. David walks through a sample of adding his code generator code to the Nerd Dinner application and walks through removing the magic strings and replacing them with strongly typed replacements. I like his approach because it solves a pain that I have when using a Lamda based approach to eliminating the strings in views.
David does a great job walking through what the problem is and than goes through each of these and shows how his approach solves this problem. The meeting was held in Live meeting and we are experimenting with this as a way to let developers interested in advanced topics get a chance to hear new approaches and ask questions live. The video missed the first minute or two of the presentation and we had some technical difficulty near the end so I edited the video to keep the video clean. enjoy!
If you are interested in the Asp.Net MVC framework I encourage you to check out Community For MVC for future presentations. This group is focused on delivering advanced topics that help with developing solutions on the ASP.Net MVC framework. There is a mailing list on the website and that is the best way to get notifications of upcoming meetings.
Link to the meeting information here: http://bit.ly/uj9VA Please feel free to share this link on twitter, blogs, ect.
David Ebbo on the T4MVC project – Wednesday 9/16/2009 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST Join the meeting here: http://Meeting.c4mvc.net
Bio: David is an architect on the ASP.NET team, which he was a part of since its very beginning in 1998. He has worked on many areas of the product, though his particular focus has been on the compilation system. More recently he has been working on ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and exciting new feature which aims to simplify the creation of data-driven web sites.
Topic: David spent some time looking at how to reduce the noise in MVC views using some code generation technologies built into Visual Studio. He did this work and published through a series of blog posts.
