Current and Upcoming Projects using ASP.net MVC, Sharepoint, and Mobile Website Development
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12/2/2009 12:16 PM
It seems that the Thanksgiving holiday bred a plethora of income opportunities for WebDBApps, this is a good thing!! I announced earlier this week that WebDBApps is developing a new website for Di-El Tool and Manufacturing. They have asked for a substantial site upgrade and we are taking the opportunity to develop it using ASP.net MVC (model-view-controller) instead of traditional ASP.net webforms. On the horizon, we will also be engaged in developing a Sharepoint webpart for an existing client, and dabbling in mobile development as well.
ASP.net MVC was difficult to grasp at first. I come from a webforms comfort level and had difficulty understanding what exactly models, views and controllers do. I tried equating a webform (default.aspx for example) to a particular MVC object, which was not correct. After spending some time on MSDN and the ASP.NET sites, I learned that MVC is really a cool way to go. Controller objects determine how to respond to incoming HTTP requests and what content to push out. View objects are the user interface. The Model is the database schema as portrayed by Entity Framework. I'm just scratching the surface with this new toolset. More to come on MVC at a later date.
Sharepoint webpart development is going to be a new service offering as well as mobile website development. I hope these new service offerings will provide more value to new and existing clients. Not only am I keenly interested in these technologies, but I think they are the wave of the future. I will post more information on these projects as they mature.
If you are using a particular IDE for your mobile website development that does a great job, please comment to this post. I would be interested in hearing from you.
Happy Coding!!