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If you’re new to ASP.NET MVC and are wondering what it’s all about, or if you have colleagues who don’t yet get it, then I hope this video might help. It’s a recording of a talk that I gave at the DDD7 conference in November 2008, covering the following:

• Why ASP.NET MVC is worth caring about [first 10 minutes with Powerpoint]
• What ASP.NET MVC is like to use [remaining 42 minutes of pure coding]

In the talk, I build a sample file-hosting application that demonstrates ASP.NET MVC’s approach to tidy code structure, clean URLs, full control over HTML markup, and simple Ajax. Here goes:

Sorry that the code is difficult to read at various points - hopefully the verbal description should explain adequately what’s going on.

With thanks to Liam Westley for physically mailing me the DVD, and to the DDD7 team and Microsoft UK for running and hosting such an excellent event and for filming the talks.

It’s kind of weird to watch myself! Hopefully though I can learn from my mistakes and deliver a slicker presentation next time…

Download the code used in this talk - you can get the completed source code for the “file host demo” that I built in this session here. Please note that this code is intended to work with the Beta version of ASP.NET MVC. It should be compatible with newer versions of ASP.NET MVC with some modifications, but I haven’t attempted it myself.

Just a quick announcement for UK readers: if you’re going to DDD7, you might be interested in the following session I’m presenting.

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Day is a free one-day event run by the UK .NET community for the UK .NET community. It’s among the largest such events in the UK, so I’m excited to be presenting a session! Judging by the list of speakers and the event’s reputation, quality should be pretty high, and the technical content should be pretty deep.

Registration has just opened, but be warned: it will likely sell out within the next 24 hours…