I'm going to try the MS 70-515 exam to update my cert for our Certified Partner membership.

Apparently a lot of the exam deals with MVC and jQuery - neither of which I have dealt with up till now.

Watching MVC videos on LearnDevNow what I come away with is that now MS style web development will take another step down by making developers hand code straight HTML rather than using asp.net controls for complex web pages.

On top of that they are using JQuery, which is apparently open source (meaning nobody is responsible for quality - like AJAX), for designing events/methods rather than VB/C# based page events. Great.

Sounds great if you are billing the client by the hour and you can convince them that it really should take longer to develop a web app now than a couple of years ago.

Did I miss something (if so - please show me the base code for a gridview MVC style where all I do is define the columns and the datasource)?

I'm going to have to fight through enough of this to pass the exam one way or another, but I just see it as a further annoyance seeing MS make more ways to make development more difficult.