Podcast: MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano
<p><a href="http://lozanotek.com/blog/">Javier Lozano</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/jglozano">@jglozano</a>) joins the show to discuss his project <a href="http://turbineproject.com/">MVC Turbine</a>. What is Turbine? The official website states:</p>
MVC Turbine is a plugin for ASP.NET MVC that has IoC baked in and auto-wires controllers, binders, view engines, http modules, etc. that reside within your application. Thus you worry more about what your application should do, rather than how it should do it.
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MVC Turbine
During our conversation we discuss the following questions and topics:
- What is MVC Turbine?
- What are some practical examples for using Turbine?
- Javier discusses the concept of a Turbine “blade”
- How Turbine works with Portable Areas as well as with the Managed Extensibility Framework
- How Turbine facilitates dependency injection and service locator (Javier strongly advises against using service location, but Turbine will support it)
- Learn about Turbines main areas of functionality:
- Registration
- Engine
- Blades
- Container
- Custom features
- Inferred actions – how Turbine will return a view that doesn’t have a controller if you are trying to access a static page
- Injectable filters: hydrate instances of filter classes from injection from Turbine
- Register a filter directly to a container
- What about Turbine for non-MVC applications?
- Turbine Version 2.1 is now available
- Turbine now batches registrations
- Future plans
- Leverage MEF
Resources
- MVC Turbine Project website
- Javier’s Blog
- Like MVC Turbine and want to see it baked into the ASP.NET MVC runtime? Check out this UserVoice thread: Put IoC Front and Center
- Should Javier Lozano legally change his name to 'Awesome Lozano' so all his projects can be officially deemed "Powered by Awesome"?
- Send MVC Turbine feedback to the Google Group
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