ASP.NET MVC is used to develop dynamic website using Microsoft .NET Technology.
A dynamic website is a website which has got user interactivity. User interactivity means that you can fill a form, click a button and website will respond to you by sending back some information to you. A static website on the other hand is just a simple collection of text and images that are put to display, with no scope for the user to ask or submit for information to the website. A static website contains a lot of hyperlinks which is a link to another static web page. Web was largely static from its inception. In that sense a static collection of web pages can be thought as a book containing thousands of pages. You can never ask a book a question!
Advent of dynamic websites revolutionized the internet. Many programming languages have come to just cater the need of submitting and asking a website some information. Even with passage of time information in a static website may be stale and back dated unless you are reading some historical information!
There are quite a lot of programming technologies available to create a dynamic website: ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Python etc. Each of them has their own advantage. With ASP.NET we are sure to find huge advantages. With dynamic compilation to complete object oriented implementation, programming web applications with ASP.NET has its own charm! If you have any previous knowledge with any of the web development platform, you can easily follow along with ASP.NET too. You will require a moderate to good knowledge of Object Oriented Programming to appreciate ASP.NET. However, if you don’t possess any web concepts, relax, you can learn ASP.NET as well. All you fundamentally need is to have a basic knowledge of Programming with C++ or Java or VB and a little concepts of basic static web page development with plain HTML will be required. Having exposed to object oriented programming will help you learn faster and better.
With ASP.NET there are two distinct ways to program. One, the traditional approach, known as WebForms technology. This approach is an easy, straight forward and has been there for almost 2 decades! But this approach hides many underlying web concepts from the programmer. This approach is good for those people who would quickly create an website with their existing knowledge base. However, there is a secondary approach, which is now the first choice for web developers, because of its simplicity, direct web integration and ease of testability. We call it MVC!
MVC stands for Model, View and Controller. In this approach we divide a web application into multiple artifacts each having its distinct role in web development. In MVC we have a clear separation of html which is the presentation layer, from the Business objects and Business validations to the underlying Data access layer. Any of the two layers are often quite oblivious of their individual workings. Even a few times some layer can be easily replaced by other similar implementation and the whole application will not break. This can be attained by
using the principle of Dependency Injection in object oriented design pattern which enables us to create a robust object oriented loosely-coupled systems. Sounds great! Right?
MVC is not just tied to any programming language or technology. It is a web development methodology which has been implemented by many existing web technologies like ASP.NET, PHP and JSP. Using MVC with ASP.NET we develop Web application that can be highly scalable and testable. With the advent of .NET Core, we can now program web with MVC not only for windows server but also for LINUX and MAC. That is, we can now host a ASP.net MVC web application in all major server operating systems. There are more benefits of writing ASP.net MVC application. For example a clear URL. For example to get a Product catalogue for a particular product we can use a more intuitive clear URL
www.xyz.com/Products/Electronics/Mobile
Instead of a traditional URL that looks little uglier like:
www.xyz.com/Products.aspx?Type=Electronics&SubType=Mobile
These clean looking URL are a favourite eye candy for Search Engines like Google and Bing. Hence you will attract more customers just by using MVC methodology! Not only clean URLs but also MVC lets us to concentrate on the exact peace of Html that we will need, and therefore the content of a web page is also very clean with clear Html. All these help to get your website easily noticed by search engines and your website automatically get search engine optimized!
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