Question

I’m a junior developer, who knows the basics already and have some experience as well, but when it comes to building a project from ground up I’m useless in terms of writing a good maintainable code. I know there are tons of design patterns for this purpose, and as well I’m aware of the asp.net MVC3. Now, do I need to read asp.net design patterns books to be become a good architect for asp.net or should I concentrate on MVC as it is the new and better design pattern ? I have this impression that design patterns and MVC stand separately since MVC is “forced” design pattern on it’s own. I need to clarify this for myself and appreciate all the answers ! Thanks.

Answer 1

I like Asp.Net Mvc much more than Web Forms because its easier to understand whats going on.
The other thing is that mvc has much better “seperation of concern” that will help you building
a good architecture. Its very clean, no asp.net controls no viewstate, no doPostBack().

You cold learn that using webcasts by phill haack and / or scott hanselman. They have many videos from different events like mix and other.

• http://www.hanselman.com/
• http://haacked.com/

Pattern /Techniques i prefer:

• Repository Pattern
• Dependencie Resolution (Ninject)
• Mvc Scaffolding (a must!!)
• Entity Framework Code First
• Nuget Packages like (Elmah, Glimpse

Other good resources are:

• http://asp.net/mvc
• http://stackoverflow.com 😉