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I have 15 minutes to present ASP.NET MVC to my colleagues. What topics should I focus on?

Asked 2009-04-14T08:25:46.980
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I've been using ASP.NET MVC for personal projects since before it hit RTM.

I am preparing a presentation for my colleagues to introduce them to basic concepts of ASP.NET MVC and show them how it could be used in our environment.

My presentation has a 15 minute limit. There is a lot of information to relay (especially if you factor in projects like MVCContrib and various blog posts).

What topics should I focus on?

Some context: I work for a digital agency. My colleagues are .NET developers with 3+ years of ASP.NET experience.

What's been suggested so far:

  • Reasons for wanting to switch to ASP.NET MVC
  • Routing
  • ActionResults (ability to serve different responses)
  • Request-Response internals
  • Testability
  • Scaffolding (T4 templates)
  • Fine-grained control over HTML output
  • Separation of concerns ()
  • Differences between ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC
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Check out the ASP.NET MVC Training Kit.

It includes a pre-canned (albeit 60 minute) presentation that you can hack around with.

It focuses on:

  • Seperation of Concerns
  • Testability
  • Control

I actually did something similar (although it was about 45 - 60 minutes including demo) just before this came out, and the key take home for us was really:

It gives you back control of the HTML mark-up.

The testability etc was fairly understood already, but that was seen as a key benefit over standard ASP.NET.

answered 2009-04-14T11:30:07.740

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