Category: Microsoft Technologies

Microsoft decided to create their own MVC framework for building web applications. The MVC framework simply builds on top of ASP.NET. When you are building a web application with ASP.NET MVC, there will be no illusions of state, there will not be such a thing as a page load and no page life cycle at all, etc.

Another design goal for ASP.NET MVC was to be extensible throughout all aspects of the framework. So when we talk about views, views have to be rendered by a particular type of view engine. The default view engine is still something that can take an ASPX file. But if you don’t like using ASPX files, you can use something else and plug in your own view engine.

There is a component inside the MVC framework that will instantiate your controllers. You might not like the way that the MVC framework instantiates your controller, you might want to handle that job yourself. So, there are lots of places in MVC where you can inject your own custom logic to handle tasks.

The whole idea behind using the Model View Controller design pattern is that you maintain a separation of concerns. Your controller is no longer encumbered with a lot of ties to the ASP.NET runtime or ties to the ASPX page, which is very hard to test. You now just have a class with regular methods on it that you can invoke in unit tests to find out if that controller is going to behave correctly.

Benefits of ASP.NET MVC

Following are the benefits of using ASP.NET MVC −

• Makes it easier to manage complexity by dividing an application into the model, the view, and the controller.
• Enables full control over the rendered HTML and provides a clean separation of concerns.
• Direct control over HTML also means better accessibility for implementing compliance with evolving Web standards.
• Facilitates adding more interactivity and responsiveness to existing apps.
• Provides better support for test-driven development (TDD).
• Works well for Web applications that are supported by large teams of developers and for Web designers who need a high degree of control over the application behavior.