Scott,

I would like to use you Agatha.Storefront site as a model for a new project that I am working on and have a couple of questions.

Why are you placing the controllers in a project rather than in the MVC project?

What do you think about the use of data annotations for validation? You did not use them in your project.

Is there anything you would do differently now give the release of MVC 3 and/or experience you gained since releasing the project? I do have the latest version of your code from codeplex and did see your notes about changes you have made in the past couple of months.

I love the book and the sample code!

-Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks for buying the book!

This was because I had planned on creating a seperate mobile version of the site that still used the same controllers but had different views. Basically so I coould have one ASP.NET MVC project for my main site and one for a mobile version.

I wrote the sample application agasin't the MVC 1.0 version when there wasn't data annotations available and I didn't have time to update the sample. However I do intend to update the sample (http://aspnetdesignpatterns.codeplex.com/) as soon as I get time.

I am in the process of writing another book using MVC 3 and the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation pattern - http://apress.com/book/view/1430235330. That will show you how I am design my ASP.NET MVC apps - you can see the code here http://agilenet.codeplex.com/.

Cheers
Scott

Scott,

Thanks for the reply. What is your target date for publishing the new book? I am interested in seeing it. Is there an early access version available?

-Dave