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Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

Shailendra Chauhan
Microsoft MVP, Technical Consultant and Corporate Trainer
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Agenda
• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC Evolution History
• ASP.NET Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC
• Advantages of ASP.NET MVC
• MVC Pattern
• MVC vs. 3-Tiers
• Routing
• ASP.NET MVC Pipeline
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ASP.NET MVC
• A new web development style on the
top of ASP.NET framework. WebForms
WebForms MVC
• Based on MVC pattern and an
alternative to WebForms. ASP.NET Framework
• Doesn’t support pages and code
behind, server-controls, drag and drop, .NET Framework
postback, view state and event life
cycle.
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ASP.NET MVC Evolution History

ASP.NET ASP.NET ASP.NET

ASP.NET ASP.NET ASP.NET ASP.NET
MVC 4, MVC 5, MVC 5.2.3,
MVC 1 4.0, MVC 2 4.5, MVC 3 MVC 5.2.6
WebAPI WebAPI 2 WebAPI 2.2
2009 2010 2011 2018
2012 2013 2015
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ASP.NET MVC1
• Released on Mar 13, 2009
• Runs on .NET 3.5 and with Visual Studio 2008
• MVC Pattern architecture with WebForm Engine
• Html Helpers
• Ajax helpers
• Routing
• Unit Testing
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ASP.NET MVC2
• Released on Mar 10, 2010
• Runs on .NET 3.5, 4.0 and with Visual Studio 2008 & 2010
• Strongly typed HTML helpers with lambda expression
• Support for Data Annotations Attribute
• Client-side validation
• UI helpers
• Areas for partitioning a large applications into modules
• Asynchronous controllers
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ASP.NET MVC3
• Released on Jan 13, 2011
• Runs on .NET 4.0 and with Visual Studio 2010
• Razor view engine
• Unobtrusive JavaScript validation
• Remote validation
• Compare Attribute
• ViewBag
• Sessionless Controller
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ASP.NET MVC3 Contd.

• Global filters
• Child Action Output Caching
• Dependency resolver for IoC
• Use of NuGet to deliver software and manage dependencies
throughout the platform
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ASP.NET MVC4
• Released on Aug 15, 2012
• Runs on .NET 4.0,4.5 and with Visual Studio 2010SP1 & 2012
• ASP.NET Web API
• Mobile project template using jQuery Mobile
• Display Modes
• Task support for Asynchronous Controllers
• Bundling and minification
• Support for the Windows Azure SDK
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ASP.NET MVC5
• Released on 17 October 2013
• Runs on .NET 4.5 and with Visual Studio 2013
• One ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Identity
• ASP.NET Scaffolding
• Authentication filters
• Bootstrap in the MVC template
• ASP.NET Web API2
• Attribute Routing
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ASP.NET WebForms vs. ASP.NET MVC

• Event Driven development model • MVC Pattern development model
• Server Controls • Html Helpers
• Follows Web Forms Syntax • Follows WebForms & Razor Syntax
• ViewState • ViewData, ViewBag
• Session • Session, TempData
• File-based Url Mapping • Route-based Url Mapping
• User Controls • Partial Views
• Not Open Source • Open Source
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Advantages of ASP.NET MVC

• Separation of concern
• Extensible and pluggable
• Light Weight
• TDD (Test Driven Development)
• URL Routing
• Better support for open source
• Supports ASP.NET features
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Web Application Components

Data Object

Logic Class

UI DOM
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MVC Pattern

Object Model

Class Controller

DOM View
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Model
Data Model
Business Model
Presentation Model
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View
Standard View
Strongly Typed View
Partial View
Layout
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Controller
C#, VB Class
Action Methods
Regular Methods
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Model-View-Controller Communication (Contd.)

Model
Changes
Presentation
Notification

Notification
Interaction
View Controller Interaction
Presentation

Eg. www.domain.com/Product/Edit/1
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MVC vs. 3-Tier

Model DAL

BAL
View Controller
PL
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MVC vs. 3-Tier

Model

View Controller

Presentation Tier
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Routing
• A pattern matching system that monitor the incoming
request and figure out what to do with that request
• Typically, a way to serve user request

Request
Routing

Controller Model
Response
View
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Types of Routing
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ASP.NET MVC Pipeline

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