Last time i looked at mvc (v1 or 2 i think) it was ok and pretty simple but i hear it's getting bloated now
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > In the end I opened a new empty project on the left, and an "Internet" > wizard generated one of the right. Using the generated one as guidance I > slowly add stuff to the empty one. It's working acceptably well so far, but > there is so much inter-dependent code in the wizard project that it takes > some concentration to figure out the minimum that I need. > > What irritates me is that the crappy O'Rielly ASP.NET MVC book that I > studied so diligently to get me started does not mention a lot of the > "magic" in the wizard project. There are magical conventions and tricks > everywhere wiring-up code and markup that I'm discovering as I go. As I > said last year, I was finally fed up with all the magic, verbosity and > complex lifecycle of Web Forms and wanted to move to MVC to have more > control, but I'm confronted by a new set of magic (but at least I suppose > there's less of it!). Sometimes I'm tempted to go all the way back to Http > Request and Response and do it all myself the old CGI way! > > *Greg K* > > > On 23 August 2014 15:09, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think there is an option for blank solution, and then you tick the MVC >> box. It's changed a few times recently but it's getting better to start >> with what you want so you can add it rather than have to remove it. >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Folks, this afternoon I was compelled to start a demo web app for >>> someone, and I figured it was time commit to MVC 4 and use it as a >>> realistic training exercise. The app will be quite simple: A login page, a >>> pick list page and a data entry page; no themes; no AJAX, no jQuery. >>> >>> A new MVC4 Internet solution created by the VS2013 wizard is grotesque >>> overkill with 52 references and dozens of scripts and images. I was about >>> to start stripping all the stuff I don't need away, but I'm not sure what >>> needed or not and I could easily break the thing to hell. >>> >>> What do others in here do when they want to start a new MVC 4 project? >>> Do you start with an empty one, or strip down a generated one, or something >>> else more convenient that I'm not aware of? >>> >>> *Greg K* >>> >> >> >
