Introducing the ASP.NET MVC Framework

MVC is all about giving developers the ability to create web applications in a quick, lean, and agile fashion. This means that the core tenets of this MVC Framework are testability, rapid development, and extensibility. Anything that you want the MVC Framework to do that it doesn’t do now, you can extend on your own through any number of extension points.

Key to making an MVC application testable and extensible is a clear separation of concerns. In other words, all the functional parts of an MVC application have clear responsibilities that are hard and fast rules, not conventions or guidelines. For example, with a Web Forms application it is up to the developers to decide whether they’re going to put code ...

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