ASP.NET MVC

Another design goal for ASP.NET MVC was to be extensible throughout all aspects of the framework. So when we talk about views, views have to be rendered by a particular type of view engine. The default view engine is still something that can take an ASPX file. But if you don't like using ASPX files, you can use something else and plug in your own view engine. There is a component inside the MVC framework that will instantiate your controllers. You might not like the way that the MVC framework instantiates your controller, you might want to handle that job yourself. So, there are lots of places in MVC where you can inject your own custom logic to handle tasks.

ASP.NET supports three major development models: Web Pages, Web Forms and MVC (Model View Controller). ASP.NET MVC framework is a lightweight, highly testable presentation framework that is integrated with the existing ASP.NET features, such as master pages, authentication, etc. Within .NET, this framework is defined in the System.Web.Mvc assembly. The latest version of the MVC Framework is 5.0. We use Visual Studio to create ASP.NET MVC applications which can be added as a template in Visual Studio.

The MVC design pattern decouples these major components allowing for efficient code reuse and parallel development. Traditionally used for desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs), this architecture has become popular for designing web applications and even mobile, desktop and other clients.

MVC/MVVM is not an either/or choice. The two patterns crop up, in different ways, in both ASP.Net and Silverlight/WPF development. For ASP.Net, MVVM is used to two-way bind data within views. ... MVC on the other hand is a way of separating concerns on the server-side.