I just posted the video from the Community for MVC presentation by Matthew Hawley about how Codeplex has been converting the site from ASP.Net Webforms to ASP.Net MVC .
The video is posted here.
Checkout the rest of the C4MVC presentations here:
Register: http://mvcconf.com
MvcConf is a online conference where you can learn about real experiences creating MVC applications as well about what the future holds for creating asp.net apps based on MVC. I have scheduled community members to present on intro and advanced topics using MVC2 and we have some Microsoft product members who will talk about some of the new stuff coming out soon.
Prepare: Before the conference go download the Microsoft Live Meeting Client the install is located at the bottom of the page.
I recommend scheduling a conference room if you and your team want to watch the presentations, or get a headset with a microphone so that you can ask questions over voice.
Please re-post , re-tweet, or email this link to anyone you know current developing or about to start a asp.net development project.
I am excited to have Phil Haack present to the Community For MVC virtual 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.
To join the meeting go to http://Meeting.c4mvc.net at 12 noon CDT (UTC – 5) Tomorrow Wed 4/7
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.
Go check them out here: http://www.c4mvc.net/Home/Events I am sure they will blow your mind!
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.
Homework: Read his first article to understand the problem he was trying to solve. The solution proposed in the first blog post changed dramatically so please read on to the additional posts. http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/2009/06/01/a-buildprovider-to-simplify-your-asp-net-mvc-action-links.aspx
This is a list of the most up to date articles to see how this work has evolved: http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/tags/T4MVC/default.aspx
You can download the T4MVC bits from here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24471
