1. What is Sitecore MVC?Out on the razors edgePrepared by: Jason St-Cyr and Nick Allen

2. What is Sitecore MVC? MVC as you may know it Sitecore MVC Why bother moving to Sitecore MVC?Resources 3. MVC as you may know it ASP.NET MVC- Model, View, Controller pattern- Interactions are routed through controllers, no post-backs- Views mapped to REST-friendly URLs- Light-weight, highly testable framework- No View State or server-based forms- Razor as the view engine- Convention over configurationToronto | Ottawa | New York | Calgary | So Paulo | Florianpolis 4 4. MVC as you know it: Route registrationpublic class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication{public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes){routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");routes.MapRoute("Default", // Route name"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parametersnew { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults);}protected void Application_Start(){RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);}} 5. MVC as you know it: Controllerspublic class CustomerController : Controller{//// POST: /Customer/Edit/5[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection){try{// TODO: Add update logic herereturn RedirectToAction("Index");}catch{return View();}}} 6. Sitecore MVC Sitecore MVC != ASP.NET MVC- Can use MVC routing, but defaults to using Sitecore as routing engine- Sitecore constructs page based on placeholder settings andpresentation details, just like with Web Forms- Individual components are defined as Controller Renderings or ViewRenderings- Instead of controller-per-page, Sitecore uses controller-per-rendering- Sitecore will run in MVC mode if:a) An MVC route is matchedb) Item layout is an MVC viewToronto | Ottawa | New York | Calgary | So Paulo | Florianpolis 7 7. Sitecore MVC: Controller vs. View Renderings Controller Rendering Executes Controller youbuild Can specify relative or fullyqualified class forcontroller Controller logic buildsmodel and determinesviews Controller is similar tocode-behind of an ASCX View Rendering Sitecore becomes theController Directly binds to anassociated .cshtml file Requires a model item,which binds directly torendering model class Useful for presentation-onlyrenderings (e.g. layoutrenderings)Toronto | Ottawa | New York | Calgary | So Paulo | Florianpolis 8 8. Why bother? Sitecore is going MVC- Sitecore 8: all UIs in SPEAK Developers want to work with MVC solutions- Separation of concerns (presentation vs code-behind)- Makes unit testing easier (if you do it right)- Re-use logic and models more easily between views- More control over rendered HTML (no view state garbage) Clients are beginning to ask for MVC solutions- Doing both > Only web forms Web Forms will go away (many years from now, but still)Toronto | Ottawa | New York | Calgary | So Paulo | Florianpolis 9 9. Resources 10. Sitecore Community Docs http://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/documentation/Sitecore%20MVC/index.html Contains links to online content submitted by the Sitecorecommunity. Key links:- Anything by Martina Welander- Creating a Visual Studio Project for Sitecore MVC- Sample Sitecore MVC project (used in Youtube tutorial videos)Toronto | Ottawa | New York | Calgary | So Paulo | Florianpolis 11 11. MSDN and others ASP.NET MVC Overview:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd381412(v=vs.100).aspx Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 5- http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/introduction/getting-started PluralSight ASP.NET MVC 5 Fundamentals- http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/aspdotnet-mvc5-fundamentals 12. Jason St-Cyr Solution Architect and Sitecore MVP, nonlinear digitalLessons Learned Background in .NET software development and Application LifecycleManagement Contact me: jst-cyr@nonlinear.ca Around the web: Technical Blog:http://theagilecoder.wordpress.com LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-st-cyr/26/a73/645 Nonlinear Thinking:http://www.nonlinearcreations.com/Digital/how-we-think Twitter: @AgileStCyr 13. Nick Allen Solution Architect and Sitecore MVP, nonlinear digitalLessons Learned Background in .NET software development Contact me: nallen@nonlinear.ca Around the web: Technical Blog:http://sitecorecreative.wordpress.com LinkedIn Profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickallen80 Nonlinear Thinking:http://www.nonlinearcreations.com/Digital/how-we-think Twitter: @sitecoretweet