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10/11/2009 9:57 PM
 

As more and more asp.net CMSs are moving to MVC, I'm wondering if MVC support is on development roadmap. I ask this question because I read that Charles Nurse will give a presentation on DNN and .Net 4.0 during openforce 09. It's said the presentation will cover MEF and Entity Framework, but MVC was not mentioned.

Just curious. Many thanks for any information.


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10/12/2009 10:09 AM
 

Frank,

I don't know anything for sure, but my guess would be that it would be very hard to move the core DNN to the MVC framework, due to the various ways that DNN handles/works with URLs alone.  I'd be interested in this as well, but from a technical standpoint I'm going to guess that it isn't going to be easy to get great support.


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10/12/2009 10:36 AM
 

As far as I can see, switching DNN from Web form to MVC would mean a complete rewrite including module interface.

Although I see a great advantage of this approach, getting rid of many current limitations and backward compatibiltiy, this will be a huge task and significantly affect the current eco system.

Please be aware, that MVP is not sth new (only to ASP.Net) and web forms will NOT be discontinued according to Microsoft (otherwise they will have to rewrite Sharepoint and other larger apps).


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10/13/2009 3:16 AM
 

Why do you want to go to MVC? A reason that because others are doing it is not good enough. Note that with MVC, you won't be able to use any server control which uses post back. While Webforms has limitations, it's not hard to have workarounds. ASP.NET 4.0 will solve some of them like controling all the controls' ID's. Turning view_state on/off at the element level. You will also be be able to use routing. It's not MVC specific. That's why they have it in its own assembly.

One has to consider what you'll be gaining and losting by going the MVC route. MVC is not replacing Webforms. These are two ways of creating asp.net apps.

 
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10/13/2009 3:23 AM
 

Thanks for chiming in here. That's kind of what I think too. It worries me when I read one of DNN competitors went mvc+castle+nhibernate.

 
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