A few months back I got to talking to J Sawyer who is a Developer Evangelist in the Texas area about the work I’ve been doing with the MVC Storefront. Before I worked at Microsoft, J was my “main man” with the Commerce Starter Kit – the very first Open Source project I ever worked on.

During the course of the conversation J asked me if I had any plans to do any “WebForm-y” stuff; and I said “no” since this was supposed to be an ASP.NET MVC project. But then I started thinking…

ASP.NET 3.0 doesn’t have any Starter Kits out there (that I know of) and it’s time we had one . If I’ve done my job right – J should be able to take the back-end goodness (Services, Data Access, Unit Tests, etc) and put them behind an ASP.NET WebForms site. And he did!

And thus CSK 3.0 is born.

But wait! There’s more!
Part of J’s job at Microsoft will be to support this new project – something that I think is really, really groovy. More time, more love, more awesomeness .

In addition to the work he’s done to get the site rolled to WebForms – J’s also created a DynamicData admin site! I’ve been wanting to do just that for a long time – and I think this is a perfect synthesis of how MVC, DynamicData, and ASP.NET WebForms can all play happily in the same sandbox.

I sat down with J and talked about this and some other things – so have a look-see!

Watch it here. (15 minutes, 16 Mb)

The CSK 3.0 Project is here

J’s blog is here

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