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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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Want some architecture input to help with current requirements and future (unknown) requirements :-)

BACKGROUND: I am starting to architect a web project using asp.net mvc. I'm going to use a very common architecture where I have the following layers: Service Biz Data Domain The Service layer ...
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IValidatableObject vs Single Responsibility

I like the extnesibility point of MVC, allowing view models to implement IValidatableObject, and add custom validation. I try to keep my Controllers lean, having this code be the only validation ...
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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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ASP.Net MVC 3: multiple versions of the site without changing of URL, is it possible?

Our website is written in ASP.NET MVC 3 and we want to change a feature in the core functionality of the site. The problem is not every client can be moved to this new version/format (because of ...
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Bringing in New Architecture During Maintenance on Legacy Systems

I have been tasked with adding some new features to a legacy ASP.NET MVC2 project. The codebase is a disaster and I want to write these new features with some thought behind the implementation and not ...
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ASP.NET MVC - should the MVC's M, V and C be explicitly aware of domain entities?

Since this question seems to be pretty subjective, I'm posting it here. Let's say you're writing your own version of Stackoverflow using ASP.NET MVC, so there are classes like Question, Answer, User, ...
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Best Practices for MVC Architecture

There are a number of questions on StackOverflow regard MVC best practices, but most of those seem to revolve around things like using Dependancy Injection, or creating helper functions, or do's and ...