ASP .NET Model View Controller

Last week on Monday, Dec 3rd, I went to an event hosted by ladotnet.org about the new ASP .NET Model View Controller (MVC) framework. The guest speaker was Phil Haack who is currently at Microsoft working on MVC. Overall I think the concept behind MVC is great. The framework looks promising. However, there are some drawbacks which I will just mention. Below is a summary of major points gathered from the meeting:

• MVC framework is built on the idea of separating the view and controller parts.
• MVC is not a replacement to WebForms but just an alternative.
• MVC pages cannot contain controls that require a postback.
• ViewState does not work with MVC.
  
• MVC allows for using "REST"-like URLs (friendly looking URLs).
• MVC generates cleaner HTML code that does not require ID munging.
• In the MVC framework, URLs map to actions not pages.

More information on MVC should follow later as I test it and learn more about it.