What is MVC Pattern

The main purpose using MVC pattern is to decouple the GUI from the Data. It also gives the
ability to provide multiple views for the same Data. MVC pattern separates objects in to three
important sections:-
• Model: - This section is specially for maintaining data. It is actually where your business
logic, querying database, database connection etc. is actually implemented.
• Views: - Displaying all or some portion of data, or probably different view of data. View
is responsible for look and feel, Sorting, formatting etc.
• Controller: - They are event-handling section, which affects either the model or the
view. Controller responds to the mouse or keyboard input to command model and view
to change. Controllers are associated with views. User interaction triggers the events to
change the model, which in turn calls some methods of model to update its state to notify
other registered views to refresh their display.
Ok now this was all in theory. Let us look at how in actually ASP.NET we can implement MVC
pattern. During interview with theory question they will be looking at have, you really
implemented MVC or its just talks. Following are the various sections of ASP.NET, which maps
to MVC sections:-
• Model: - This section is represented by Data view, Dataset, Typed Dataset, Business
components, business entity models etc. Now this section can then be tied up to either
windows application or web UI.
• View: - ASPX, ASCX, or windows application UI like data grid etc. form the view part of
it.
• Controller: - In ASP.NET the behind, code is the controller as the events are handled by
that part. Controller communicates both with Model as well as with view.