Who Killed ASP.NET MVC?
I recently gave a presentation at a .Net Developer Group meeting about the architecture of VoiceModel and how it promoted reuse by using ASP.NET MVC as the underlying technology. After the presentation I was having a discussion with the attendees and one of them said, "I heard that MVC is a dying technology." I was kind of taken aback by this comment and wondered where he got this information from. Did I miss some news flash from Microsoft? He could not remember the source and went on to say, "Yeah, I heard that it is being replaced by ASP.NET Web API". I assured him that it did not seem possible that Microsoft would abandon a technology that is obviously popular with developers and has an upcoming release with MVC 4, and that Web API is just an extension of MVC that serves a very specific purpose. For those of you not familiar with Web API it is part of the upcoming MVC 4 release and allows developers to easily create RESTful web API's using the familia...