Findlay Area .NET Users Group

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC w/ a spice of jQuery

The ASP.NET MVC framework and the jQuery javascript framework work very well together in order to build up to date, rich client web applications with no need for silly plugins.

ASP.NET MVC is an alternative to the traditional ASP.NET web forms from Microsoft. They both use ASP.NET as the mechanism to talk between a web browser and IIS but the patterns they implement are far different.

ASP.NET MVC is modeled after popular model-view-controller web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. It was not built to replace ASP.NET web forms but rather as an alternative to the viewstate/post back model of web forms.

We will look at the patterns of the ASP.NET MVC framework and explore the work flow of requests and responses to and from a server as well as how it differs from the traditional web forms applications.

jQuery is a javascript framework that is designed to make cross-browser DOM programming easier and make developing with javascript suck less.

In this presentation, we will go over the basics of jQuery which will allow you to go home and get started right away. We will cover concepts such as DOM manipulation, CSS manipulation, ajax requests, and user interface effects. jQuery makes performing these tasks trivial and allows you to add ajax calls and Flash-like effects to your web site easily.

Speaker
Jamie Wright - Brilliant Fantastic

Jamie Wright is president of Brilliant Fantastic, a software development consulting service provider and ISV for software management applications. He has over ten years software development experience in Microsoft technologies and has developing in .NET since the first beta release. He specializes in application architecture, design patterns, object-oriented design, and business objects using the .NET framework. He loves spending time with his newly growing family, blogging at http://wrightin.gs, twittering at http://twitter.com/jwright, and he is currently getting therapy for his gadget addiction.