With the release of ASP.Net MVC 1.0 we now have a stable, production ready alternative to Web Form development in ASP.Net!  The files needed to implement MVC into Visual Studio are available here.  Thanks to Maarten Balliauw for being on the forefront of letting everyone know that the release is official.

For the uninitiated.  ASP.Net MVC (Model View Controller) is a way of developing that trully seperates the concerns of a project.  In General terms, and greatly simplified, the Model is the data layer, the View is the user display and the controller is the glue that brings everthing together.

MVC will not kill Webforms, but it does offer an alternative. 

As I become more familiar with this framework, I'll put more posts out with information on what I'm doing.  I may also write some articles for some other websites on the framework as well.

Good Day!

One of the last things I want to be confronted with in a project is using fuzzy logic in stored procedures to check if something already exists in a database.  Let's face it, it's never easy and always an inexact science, at least for me. 

However, there is a silver lining to the dark cloud that is fuzzy logic, SimMetrics.

I'm a big fan of using othe peoples genius to make myself look good.  After all, why reinvent the wheel, when someone smarter has created a better wheel than you ever could.   I'm not diminishing myself, but I know where my strengths reside.

Anyhow, there is a great article written by Tasos Yalanopoulos has a great post that he wrote on setting up SimMetrics on a SQL Server database.  If you follow his instructions, he'll get you to the promised land. Tasos' post is called Beyond SoundEx - Functions for Fuzzy Searching in MS SQL Server and is a great read.

I want to give a shout out to my friend Rich Dudley for pointing me, through his blog, to this post.