I'm developing a small cms based on asp.net mvc. I'd like to have one user interface for all editing e.g like this http://www.example.com/dashboard/{controller}/{action}etc. What is the best practice for this kind of project structure?
My suggestion is to follow the standard MVC project conventions. Of course you can write your app using different conventions but the point of conventions is that once you learn where things go it's really easy to add new things and it's really easy for others to "read" your project. I would go with the suggestions in Scott's blog.
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I've seen references dating back 3+ years for Portable Areas in ASP.NET MVC, but then I ran across "Areas" for ASP.NET Core.
Are these the same thing?
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Is this something that is better solved with DI if you want to create an application with modularity or plugins?
Using the ASP.NET Core Application parts feature you can easily put your area's controllers/view components inside another project and then use in the main web application. It is a bit more difficult with the views and static content. I prefer to add them as resources in the same projects as area controllers are located and then implement the IFileProvider interface and assign my implementation to the IHostingEnvironment.WebRootFileProvider property.
You can use ExtCore framework to make this all automatically.
I currently have a simple website that I want to convert to a CMS without losing any of the appearance or existing functionality. Also I would like to re-use my existing code for the site where possible and also make use of our in-house libraries and databases.
Orchard seems like a good bet because it also uses MVC 3 however it seems a bit bloated. There is a small project at atomicCMS which looks interesting. Has anyone used this?
Any hints or tips would be appreciated.
There should be a tag for this post called atomiccms but my account cannot create one.
There was a similar question, which you can find helpful.
Moving an ASP.NET MVC 3-based web application to Orchard is a fairly simple task. You just have to wrap it up in an Orchard module.
I have used both Orchard and N2 CMS. Both work on asp.net mvc.
I like the way Orchard is designed, but it is a rather steep learning curve. Also you will need to develop modules if you want to add your own custom functionallity.
After hearing a .netocks podcast on N2.CMS I decided to try it out for a recent project. It has a different approach/philosophy, you can think of it as a 'plugabble' CMS component. You basically keep your existing web app and can use CMS functionallity where it is required.
However, Orchard does have many more modules and skins available. I would definetly give N2.CMS a closer look, especially if you have an existing application.
In Orchard you must run as an orchard module (Mvc Area) and have no direct access to the root web.config. Depending on what you do in your existing app (wcf, etc...) this might be a limitation. With N2 cms you are not restricted in this manner.
We have started a new Asp .net web project. We plan to do in in MVC. Is it a good practice to use Microsoft's MVC 3 tool or is it good to define our own structure? Web site requirements are normal. Some people suggest if we use microsoft tool we will loose our control in the project????? Any problems that we may face when we use micosoft MVC 3 tool (Razor)?
no really, there isn't any problem -present and future; if you have deep knowledge about issues such as OOP, ASP.NET structure and how it works, MVC architecture, etc. I suggest you strongly use and enjoy ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor :D
If you are new to MVC then I would suggest go through basic (or advance dependending upon how much you know) MVC tutorials before deciding arch. Things can be done in various ways and it differs from project to project. Once you build your knowledge about things like DomainModel, serviceLocator, IoC, ViewModel, Helpers, repository pattern etc. you will have better idea about which tool to use. I would start looking at some of the sample projects on the codeplex. (would not be too hard to find)
Good luck
If I said yes, would you go ahead and use it? The same goes for building a house or working on any project. What has worked for me, might not work for you. I would start from reading learning resources on here. I would also suggest reading about HTTP protocol and its stateless nature as well as looking at differences between web forms and mvc frameworks. Good luck.
I am starting a project with Sitecore, I have looked for different possibilities. I have some experience with MVC but I don't understand why you want to combine this with Sitecore (6.4).
What are the benefits? Are there any examples of the implementation of (the code of) this (not the configuration on: http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/64/integrating%20an%20asp.net%20mvc%20web%20application%20in%20sitecore%20cms-usletter.pdf)?
Or why shouldn't I use MVC with Sitecore?
So when should I use Sitecore 6.4 with MVC3 and when not? And are there any (code)examples?
Thanks in advance!
I've successfully implemented my own MVP implementation using Sitecore. MVP is a bit more forgiving than MVC, and can easily be integrated into web forms based applications. I used T4 templates to generate Models directly from Sitecore templates using the built-in webservices which worked really well.
Sitecore doesn't support MVC yet (in the recommended release), and trying to make it work is probably not worth the effort. I believe they are working on a version that supports MVC properly, which may be the link you provided. However it's probably also very new and there is a lot of functionality in the old version that relies on web forms. I'd like to see it working under MVC in an official capacity for a few more iterations.
Implementing patterns such as MVC and MVP are all about separating concerns and making your presentation layer unit testable. It also encourages more elegant design.
Just reading the doc it looks like this is a guide for running Sitecore in parallel with MVC. I can't see anything about new rendering mechanisms for Sitecore, which would make templating difficult in anything other than web forms. It would however allow you to use the Sitecore API to build your own templates via MVC Views, but you would loose the inline editing functionality that you get out-of-the-box with web forms.
Using mvp is probably the simplest way to go. I wrote a blog post about it here.
However, we have used MVC3 with Razor before and it worked very well. The only issue is you lose the ability to use Page edit mode as you have to do some hacking of sitecore to get it to work. I'm contemplating writing a blog post about it if people are interested.
Just to follow up.. MVC is now supported in 6.6, which will be released on November 5th 2012. We just saw a demo from John West at the Sitecore Symposium and it looks like a great framework. One of the best things about it is that you can use MVC side-by-side with Web Forms. You don't have to make an all-in bet for MVC, you can just slowly migrate or build new components in MVC, while still running Web Forms throughout your site.
I currently have an ASP.NET MVC project with several other projects, class libraries mostly. I want to create a "mobile-friendly" version of the ASP.NET MVC app that uses the WURFL library, and I just want to know if it would be a bad practice to create a separate MVC solution? Or should I have the mobile detection within the same MVC project and serve up appropriate views? I just want to keep my concerns separate from an architectural point of view. Is it bad practice to do a redirection based on device?
I think it's better to create the separate solution cause:
1. You will know for sure that users use mobile devise for see this vertion
2. Sometimes autodetection not work correctly
3. Build the new solution can be faster that setup the mobile detection on old solution
PS> Sorry for my english :)