There's a new way to build web applications in ASP.NET, and that's by using the newly-released ASP.NET MVC framework. If you've read the "Gang of Four" book or any other book on design patterns (or any of Rocky Lhotka's books on business objects), you know that MVC is short for "Model-View-Controller" and a pattern for separating an application into its business logic, presentation and interface. Perhaps you've looked longingly as the "cool kids" have used frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django to build applications with greater speed and fun, and fewer errors and less futzing around with tedious development minutiae. You might have heard Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack talk about their work on ASP.NET MVC, or maybe you'd heard that, or maybe you'd heard that Jeff Atwood's Stack Overflow is implemented in ASP.NET MVC. is implemented in ASP.NET MVC.

In this presentation, I'm going to introduce you to ASP.NET MVC, build a simple web application as you watch, and point you to all sorts of resources. I'll be drawing on my own experience with not just ASP.NET MVC, but also from developing applications using other MVC web app frameworks such as Rails, Django and CakePHP. I promise that this presentation be informative, enlightening, entertaining and just might feature a rock and roll accordion performance.