In my previous post (not so long ago). I talked about the Actionlink and it not being very refactor friendly because of all the magic strings in it.

But there was a strongly typed version out there somewhere that didn't work all the time but I couldn't find it at that time.

Well it is hiding here and you can dowload it by clicking on the ASP.NET MVC v1.0 Futures link.

I installed the brandnew (nearly anyway) release version of ASP.Net MVC v1.0. I don't think that will cahnge much for my previous examples since the code all still works. Apart from having to reset the references that is.

So in my previous example I removed some of the magic strings. But it seems that some other magic strings are here to stay for a while at least.

And this is it.

I worked a little further on my first ASP.Net spike code. I wanted to have a Person that comes frome a repo to show on the screen with less magic string. First I read a bit in this. But I get bored pretty quickly with reading things so I got back to experimenting. This is the result.

First I create my trusted Person Class.

Let me start by saying that I'm not a webdeveloper I do most of my work in Winforms. I personaly think webdevelopment is a bit frustrating. The way you have to test for x number of browsers just to find out there is another browser ou there you never heard f and that doesn't render your site like it should. But anyway. I had a stab at ASP.Net MVC just to see how they implement MVC (Model-View-Controller).

I must add at this point that I had previous experience with JSF and I kinda liked ...

The DotNetSlackers site has a nice series of articles about design patterns. The articles were written by Granville Barnett and are a very good read. Here is what is in the first four articles.

Design Patterns – Part 1

Learn how to design more robust and maintainable code by incorporating design patterns into your software projects.

1 Introduction

2 The strategy pattern

3 Implementing our design

4 Summary