ASP.NET MVC And Dynamic Data Learn To Play Well Together

• Jun 11, 2008
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My compadre Scott Hunter, another PM on the ASP.NET team, who happens to work on the Dynamic Data feature, recently put together an example of using ASP.NET MVC and Dynamic Data Web Forms together in the same application. Look for the link to MvcDynamicData.zip on this Code Gallery page.

I’ve been working on a post detailing a couple different ways to integrate WebForms and MVC, but life has been really busy for me lately. Hopefully I’ll get that to you soon.

In the meanwhile, you can probably learn all you need to know by looking at this example.

By the way, Scott was recently featured on .NET Rocks. We need to get a better picture of him taken. That whole Smoking Man image has got to go.

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Mike Hadlow Jun 11, 2008 9:36 AM

# re: ASP.NET MVC And Dynamic Data Learn To Play Well Together

Hi Phil,

Dynamic Data is nice but it doesn't supply a nice replace-it-bit-by-bit path to custom controllers/views that would allow you to quickly knock up a prototype but then hand-code the bits you need. I'd really like to see Rails style scaffolding in the MVC Framework similar to the solution in Monorail.

I've built a scaffolding controller based on my own Repository implementation, it doesn't supply the views yet, but at least it's saving me from coding simple repetative controllers.

mikehadlow.blogspot.com/.../...rk-scaffolding.html

Mike

ecards Jun 24, 2008 10:14 AM

# re: ASP.NET MVC And Dynamic Data Learn To Play Well Together

Yikes!

I have been making my way through all the 3.5sp1 technologies (loving mvc) and realized that mvc does not have inherent scaffolding support!?

Guys please, add this on this list of priorities to make scaffolding just as easy and powerful as with web forms.

I was just starting not be be jealous of those Django guys.

Oh the humanity! :)

Regards,
LTG

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