Question

Does anyone have an experience with developing a big web app using ASP.NET MVC ver 1?

If yes:

• What troubles can be expected?
• What are the biggest risks?
• What are the main points the attention should be paid for?
• Is there any alternative for ASP.NET MVC right now? And how reasonable this can be?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

In brief, just my opinions …

Risks & Troubles (I found) :

• Routes can be a bit of a sticking point, IMHO until you get a complete handle on them, they’re just a little awkward!
• Mocking of the Http objects is not as easy as I’d hoped, because of dependencies
• I’d guess the biggest risk is developing an applicaiton before the dev tem is completely up to speed with all the MVC features etc.

Main points to pay attention to

• Make sure that your domain design is correct from the outset.
• Choose a good mocking framework for your unit tests
• Take a look at The microsoft blog engine code: Oxite (downloadable from codeplex) excellent place to see how things should be done
• Get a good book! I’ve looked at a couple but found this one the best :
  http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430210079

There are other MVC frameworks. Wikipedia has a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller

As a UI developer my preference would be to use MVC over Webforms now.