>>>Seems like a great idea. I'm not a MS hater by any means, but it seems that when a third party has the benefit of hindsight they can hammer out a great product.
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>>>>I haven't used it. Hadn't even heard of it until recently. We had two presentations on it at Utah Code Camp this past weekend, one of them by one of the guys behind Fubu. Unfortunately, I couldn't get to either of them.
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>>>>>Ah, I forgot about MVP. Never got into that much as I am headed in the MVC direction. Have you used FubuMVC?
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>>Congrats on the new job. Is it more or less of a commute?
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>>The floor is still open on MVC vs. MVVM....
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>How can you say that? Just because you have a couple of months knowledge in .Net doesn't make you an expert, neither does my 9 years, but I am adaptable to what works and what works well. We have been using MVVM for nearly 2 years now. The power of Silverlight and WPF is in its capability to bind to data easily. The power of MVVM is in the binding of the ViewModel to the View... Binding is the key.... It all happens auto-magically when set up correctly.. MVVM works extremely well with silverlight, MVC not so well.
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>P.S.
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>One of the other things is the ability to bind button click events directly to a property in the view model.

Damon Payne hit on this exact point. He said the more code you can put in the controllers and the less in code-behind modules, the better. Abstraction was sort of the theme of the day. In all the code that was demonstrated, there were very few lines of code (if that makes sense).

The guy who really, really impressed me at the conference was Mads Kristensen of Microsoft. He is a Program Manager in the HTML5 group and may in fact be the head of the group. He described his team as having close ties with both the VS and IE groups without being part of either. He is Danish (only a very slight accent) and looks a little like Robin Williams on a geek bender. He knows HTML and ASP.NET cold and has a lively way of speaking, including some occasional dry wit. See him if you ever get the chance.