Hanselminutes Podcast 202 - A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP
My two-hundred-and-second podcast is up. I sit down (in my home, actually) with Tatham Oddie to talk about the WebFormsMVP open source project created by he and Damian Edwards. What does it add? Can we have the best of both worlds, convenience, controls and testability?
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There is a lot of work to do before choosing ur framework to stay with healthy and clean asp.net webforms :)
Yep, you're definitely correct here. I probably should have qualified my statements to talk about PreInit on the page, or Init on the controls. Hopefully my statements (as they were) will at least point some people to learn about view state tracking.
Thanks for the comment!
How does this framework handle web part scenarios? It sounds like the messaging system might handle communication between multiple views on a page, but this isn't clear.
The source code is managed using VS2010 but the compiled libraries work fine on ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. Unless you're looking to contribute changes, just grab the compiled release.
More info about the messaging bus is available here: http://wiki.webformsmvp.com/index.php?title=Feature_walkthroughs
Tatham
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I've recently kicked off on a proof of concept for porting/integrating this framework into an existing Web Forms application. Focusing on cleaning up parts of the system that have the most complex logic but are lacking in testing and in particular lacking in the ability to be easily tested (business logic trapped in the code behind files).
This episode will be very useful to help sell/inform others on my team on the value of adding such enhancements to our Web Forms application.
Thanks Scott really nice questions & Tatham for detailed answers.