DotNetSurfers Blog

 Ok!! So everbody and their mother have already blogged about the new MVC Framework released with Asp.Net 3.5 Extensions preview 1 week ago, but i just got time to try it out. Its pretty different from the WebForms model, and is not meant to replace it in any way. Its an alternative that promotes test driven design and makes it easy to unit test your code. As per ScottGu, it enforces a clear separation of concerns within applications. In other words, it makes it harder for the developer to make bad design decisions, because it encourages you to keep your layout (view) separate from the data access code (model) and business logic (controller). Also, the URLs in an MVC point to the Controller and not to the view, so it gives you much more control over the URLs in your application. You also do not have the file extensions as part of the url by default, since you are pointing to the Controller class, and you can specify the method (ControllerAction) to call along with the parameters in the URL itself.  The  controller invokes the appropriate view which renders the html.
 
 To learn more about Asp.Net MVC framework, check out the following resources:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottGuMVCPresentationAndScottHaScreencastFromALTNETConference.aspx
MVC Part1
MVC Part2
MVC Part3
MVC Part4

Its quite a handful for a 1 week old technology preview framework, isn't it!!

-Latish Sehgal

 Sharepoint 2007 allows user targeting at the individual web part level. You can control what each user sees by default by enabling audience targeting on the control in its Settings, and then configuring the user groups that should see the web part under Advanced 'Settings->Target Audiences' .


You should remember though, that this only removes the control from the default view, and can still be accessed via the 'View All Site Content' link on the site. To completely remove access to a control for a user group, you should also configure the 'Permissions for the List' under 'Settings->Permissions'.

-Latish Sehgal