ASP.NET MVC Without Visual Studio

Question

Instead of writing my ASP.NET C# applications in Visual Studio, I used my favourite text editor UltraEdit32.

Is there anyway I can implement MVC without the use of VS?

Answer 1

Assuming you have the correct assemblies and a C# compiler you in theory can use whatever you want to edit the code and then just run the compiler by hand or using a build script. That being said it is a real pain doing .NET development without Visual Studio/SharpEdit/Monodevelop in my opinion.

Answer 2

There is nothing VS specific with the MVC framework - it is just a bunch of DLLs that you can use. The wizards in VS just build you a quick-start framework.

ASP.NET MVC is "bin-deployable" - there is nothing too clever to set up on the server either - just point the wildcard ISAPI filter to ASP.NET

Answer 3

Even if you didn't want to actually edit in VS, you could create the project there and edit the files in another editor.

Answer 4

Here is a great example of the MVC pattern implemented using .NET 2.0.. http://mudabone.com/?page%5Fid=335. This doesn't use the ASP.NET MVC Framework libraries, but does implement the MVC pattern.