My Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC

This is such a huge step in the right direction for ASP. Microsoft appears to be backing away from the just-add-water approach to building web apps. I am not sure if Microsoft will appreciate the comparisons, but ASP is approaching the flexibility of PHP and Ruby/Rails. I have been using the ASP.NET MVC Framework professionally for about five months. It is vastly more fun to work with in contrast to WebForms. I have always felt like anything ASP was anti good practices. With this framework, you get a nice separation of concerns. Careful, MVC is just a design pattern and a design pattern is only as good as the person implementing it. You can still end up with an unmanagable project if you are lazy. I found this great quote by Rob Conery, “Frameworks don’t create Tag Soup. Developers do.”

The coolest thing about this project is the way it is being released and improved. Microsoft has made the source available and the developers are actively taking feedback. I am confident when ASP.NET MVC is a final release it will be solid from a developer’s perspective. If you are interested, you can check out preview 4 here.