MVC and jQuery
Used my free time today to catch up on MIX09 in particular the new ASP.NET MVC framework and how it compares with Web Forms. Looks good and has nice separation* ... not that Web Forms has bad separation, it was only if you started building custom controls and putting business logic into them (which I've seen done) that you then got confused as to where you should write the next bit of code or hunt for the bug* ... though in some ways it seems to be going back to the days of classic ASP since there aren't any click events and the likes.
I like the admission that although MVC gives you more control than Web Forms but as a consequence it therefore needs more work to develop sites. Hence Web Forms are not going away. Only thing is I can see a prototype needed to be developed the quick way then needing more control when developing drop1 :-)
I was interested to see that jQuery was included as part of the install because last I looked Microsoft were putting a decent effort into their own JavaScript API but I see now that, with being on .NET 2.0 these last 18 months** that "Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward". And "also plan to contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches back to the jQuery open source project". Cool.
* I should blog about my thoughts on that as a follow-up to this post
** One of the differences in being in "the real world" as opposed to training is the difference between being pragmatic as opposed to chasing the bleeding edge.
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