ASP.NET MVC Framework and Web Client Software Factory (WCSF)

Microsoft p&p team released recently WCSF 2.0. With the upcoming release of the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework it is important to understand, how these two approaches differ.

The WCSF uses Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern, and this pattern does not map exactly to the ASP.NET MVC. Derek Greer has described the basic difference between MVP and MVC in this great article. And Simon Ince compared the Microsoft implementations in his blog:

In other words, the choice to force all requests through the Controller outlaws the post-back model. In contrast, one of the goals of the WCSF was to support standard ASP.NET functionality wherever possible, to maximize the speed at which developers could get going with it, and allow it to sit well with existing frameworks.

I believe this is the critical point. Those of us, who have large developer teams and cannot afford the investment now, have to use WCSF or stick to "classic" ASP.NET.


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