Hey! Roomie is still here.

Woooh!  I have not blogged about Roomie in a looong time!  Just like I came to a dead-end with Roomie’s desktop client component and re-wrote it, I came to a dead-end with Roomie’s web component.  I started out using ASP.NET, C#, and Web Forms.  Web Forms made it really easy for me to do web development using my experience programming desktop applications with WinForms.  Last year I reached the limits of what WinForms would offer, and I needed something more powerful.  I discovered ASP.NET MVC, which was totally new and strange and awesome.  But woes, the darn thing updates all the time!  That’s great, except that I was learning MVC2 while MVC3 was in development.

Needless to say, I was daunted by the huge task of migrating the whole Roomie website over from an old technology.  I also wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about CSS, and JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, LINQ, the .NET Entity Framework, and anything else that I didn’t know I needed to know.  All of that is still in progress, but I am not to the point where I have started a new website, though it is not live yet.

Pretty!

Here’s a sample of the main layout using the Razor view engine:

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