As some of you already know, I blogged about my reaction to the Oxite MVC sample from the MIX Online Labs. Also, I started blogging some of my ideas for refactoring the source to make it a bit more streamlined. More importantly, I want use these posts as a way to share my ideas on how to use the new ASP.NET MVC framework. Not that I am “the source” for the right implementation, but I do want to provide another insight to the problem. Anywho…
Instead of keeping my source in zip files and bits and pieces, I created a fork of the Oxite projectcalled Etixo(Oxite ALTered). I know Rob is doing the same thing out on his SVN server. However, he’s taking a different approach to the problem. He’s refactoring the core of the application and applying more DDD discipline to it. Don’t get me wrong, that’s totally awesome and he’s doing a great job at it (just like he’s doing with this MVC Storefront). I want to take the utilitarian approach and show how you can refactor the infrastructure of the application to separate concerns. From there, you can always refactor to a DDD foundation.
Another goal I have for this project is to apply some of the concepts and tooling from my Zen of ASP.NET and Open Source tools talks I did this last year. Hopefully, this can serve as a nice sample for developers that are either stuck with the question “how do I move to MVC from Webforms?” or “how do I use tool X with MVC?”.
If you’re interested in helping out with the refactoring with related MVC content, please let me know. I can give you write access to the source out in Google Code.
Happy Codin’!