ASP.NET MVC and User Group Fun

I did a couple user group presentations this month on the new ASP.NET MVC framework. This post is a follow-up with all the links I promised to publish.

My first presentation of the year went to the Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals in Columbia, MD. The turnout at the meeting was tremendous – I'd say well over 100 people were in attendance. It didn't hurt that G Andrew Duthie was giving away free copies of Visual Studio 2008 as part of the Microsoft Installfest, and the catered food was a lot better than the typical pizza-in-cardboard user group fare.

Best of all, I walked out of the meeting with a new 8 GB Zune 2 (thanks to a winning raffle ticket). Many people tried to tell me that it's not fair for the speaker to win the grand prize raffle, but I pretended not to hear them and then slipped out quietly before the mob turned ugly.

My second presentation went to the BaltoMSDN group in Hunt Valley, MD. Imagine going to a wine tasting and having a technical presentation break out. That's what BaltoMSDN is like, because they have their meetings in a private room at the Greystone Grill. Bacon wrapped sea scallops and Belgian beer on draft go well with code, I must say.

The Links

• The slide deck, for your perusal (although the deck is mostly eye candy, and most of the presentation was inside Visual Studio).
• The code I worked on was all improvised demos. I'd recommend looking at Jeff Palermo's subversion repository. He has a complete application built using the MVC framework. Jeff also recorded a DNRTV episode.
• Eilon Lipton: Design Philosophy
• ScottGu has a number of posts: Introduction, URL Routing, Passing ViewData, and Handling Form Edit and POSTs.
• Phil Haack: MVC Helpers For Repopulating Forms, Testing Routes In ASP.NET MVC, TDD and Dependency Injection.
• Rob Conery: Using Helper Classes and Services, PageList<T>, Using RESTful Architecture
• Nikhil Kothari: Using AJAX