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MVC URL formatting/design

In refactoring a lot of MVC code, I have run into an issue with my URL design. For example, let's say we have a Venue object public class Venue { public long ID { get; set; } public ...
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Is MVC ever considered/applied system-wide?

I was having a discussion with a colleague and he bought up the topic of MVC and the use of ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC. The discussion was that, in an n-layer architecture, the UI, Business Layer and ...
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Why is using named routes for generating outbound URLs a violation of Separation of Concerns?

What is separation of concerns? In computer science, separation of concerns (SoC) is the process of breaking a computer program into distinct features that overlap in functionality as little ...
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How to make an ASP.NET MVC site modular

I'm in the planning stage for an employee intranet system to be built with ASP.NET MVC 4. We'd like the site to consist of separate "modules", each of which provides a different feature: messaging, ...
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How should I implement the repository pattern for complex object models?

Our data model has almost 200 classes that can be separated out into about a dozen functional areas. It would have been nice to use domains, but the separation isn't that clean and we can't change it. ...
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Modular enterprise architecture using MVC and Orchard CMS

I'm making a large scale MVC application using Orchard. And I'm going to be separating my logic into modules. I'm also trying to heavily decouple the application for maximum extensibility and ...
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Is it better to define all routes in the Global.asax than to define separately in the areas?

I am working on a MVC 4 project that will serve as an API layer of a larger application. The developers that came before me set up separate Areas to separate different API requests (i.e Search, ...
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Separating data access in ASP.NET MVC

I want to make sure I'm following industry standards and best practices with my first real crack at MVC. In this case, it's ASP.NET MVC, using C#. I will be using Entity Framework 4.1 for my model, ...
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When business rules affect presentation in MVC

The MVC design pattern is supposed to led itself to separating business rules from presentation. But sometimes business rules AFFECT presentation. What is the best way to deal with this? Is that ...
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How do you organize an ASP.NET MVC 3 application with potentially hundreds of views but with only a few entry points?

Assumptions: Minimalist ASP.NET MVC 3 application for sending emails where the view represents the contents of an email. Over 500+ email types. I would NOT like to have 500+ actions in my controller ...
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Is it better to have separate Create and Edit actions or combine Create and Edit into one?

We are using ASP.NET MVC 2 with a Controller/View Presentation Layer and Model consisting of A Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer [Stored Procedures and classes/methods to talk to the stored ...
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Help me in choosing appropriate pattern

From last one week i was searching for most suitable architecture for a new web application. To be honest i did web development for only 1 year (back in 2007). And from last four years i am working in ...
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Is it a “pattern smell” to put getters like “FullName” or “FormattedPhoneNumber” in your model?

I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC app, and I've been getting into the habit of putting what seem like helpful and convenient getters into my model/entity classes. For example: public class Member { ...