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01 - Intro, MVC

MVC

  • MVC pattern is from SmallTalk team, first academic paper is from year 1979
  • By the original definition
    • MODEL – business info and logic
    • VIEW – visual (partial) representation of model
    • CONTROLLER – middle part in between user and system
  • Derivatives: MVP, MVVM, ...

Modern web uses the same pattern – html as model, css as view and browser as controller

MVC Separation

MVC

Why MVC?

  • Separation of Concerns – business logic (model) and user interface (view) should be separated from each other. BL/Model represent our understanding of real world, UI is just for presentation and manipulation
  • Business logic should be totally independent
  • Business logic should be able to support several different UI-s
  • Controller intermediates between BL and UI
  • Good teamwork, testable code

MS Web Technologies

MS has several Web technologies

  • .NET and ASP.NET Core
    • Multiplatform (Win, macOS, Linux), modular, extremely fast, modern, open source
  • ASP.NET MVC is predecessor to ASP.NET Core, tightly coupled to IIS and Windows .NET framework.
  • WebForms is even older technology (Sharepoint)
    • Similar to desktop development
    • Unclean and cluttered html, state is saved into html
    • Lots of readymade components
    • Every page has its own code behind

Demo - Contact App

Exam practical excercise

Create a simple web application, that manages basic contact database and allows searches from it

Required features

  • Add, change and remove Persons, Contacts and Contact Types
  • Add n comments to Persons (creation Date and time)
  • Statistics and detail views about Person and Contact Type
  • Search functionality in
    • persons (First name, Last Name, Company)
    • contacts (contact type and value)
  • Removal of persons and contacts – logical and hard delete
  • Every logged in user has its own contacts

UOW, Repos, i18n are not required. ViewModels, nullable ref types, etc. are required.