Chapter 16Introduction to MVC

ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework is the invention of Scott Guthrie of Microsoft’s ASP.NET team, built upon a common software design principle to solve many common problems that software developers face. In the real world, software is a living design that requires many changes after the original features are developed.

The benefits of using MVC include:

  • the Separation of Concerns between the HTML markup, data classes, and user workflow

  • there’s no more need for server-side forms, or view state, as we have full control over HTML output

  • easy integration with Visual Web Developer to create views, controllers, models, and scaffolding template support

  • razor scripting engine support to easily mix HTML markup ...

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