Hi guys!
I am an MVC developer since ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 and my company chose me as an instructor for an MVC 2 workshop. The session will last for 3 hours and I have not yet decided about the contents of the workshop.
What would you tell about MVC 2 in 3 hours to grab and keep the people's attention?
Thanks.
You should watch some of the presentations on Channel 9. And pick some topics that they go over...
Check out some of the presentations here: http://www.asp.net/mvc
Scott Hanselman has a 73 minute one on the home page, that might be a good one to start with and mimic, as well as some of the other ones.
Why not take them through building NerdDinner? http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-321793.html
Some of the Scott Hanselman videos out there on MVC are good, too, and might give you a small break from talking.
It will depend of the kind of people will watch your workshop, it they are familiar with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or the MVC pattern, etc.
I think that the first and bigger concept behind the MVC is the separation of concerns, and you should show it and how it can help the developers, specially with the TESTING issue.
If people are not familiar with MVC, only this part would take a good time. If they're familiar and you want to talk specifically about the version 2 of the framework, I think the bigger changes from the previous one were:
With few examples, once 3 hours is few time to get deeper in each of these points. Would be nice to develop a few app live so they can see how easy it is.
One thing I would cover is the flexibility of MVC. E.g., you have your choice of models and view languages. I would definitely cover the Spark View Engine, to give people an idea of how they can get away from code-centric (as opposed to markup-centric) view languages.
after introduction of mvc framework u can go on to include following topics
Routing (route constraints matching and custom route handlers)
Model validation and custom
validation attributes Security and authorization attributes Model
binding default model binders and writing custom model binders
custom html helpers
Take a look at 13 extensibility points of mvc
Read Steven Sanderson's book, especially the bit about glib demos that don't tell the real story.
Some people suggest Nerddinner, but why not just point them at Hansellmann's video on the subject? To be honest, you need Nerddinner to get an impression of how MVC works, and Steven Sanderson's book to get an impression of how to use MVC.
Still, I really don't think that this is a valid question, and don't know why the Stackoverflow police have not jumped on this one.