Shawn

Fantastic video Scott.  I have read Sanderson's MVC book, watched every video tutorial I could find and I just couldn't get my mind around MVC.  I saw things about it that I really liked, but it never really "clicked" for me - until now.  Anyone frustrated with really starting to understand MVC, should start here.

First off - great series so far.  Thank you for putting it together.   That out of the way... have we all gone mad?  This video describes the process of writing something close to 200 lines of code, to effectively control the visibility of TWO UI elements.  It's trade-offs like this that make it really hard to swallow some of the "pattern pills" being prescribed these days.  MVVM?  I have to be honest guys, if I have to write 200 lines of code to be able to then write another 100 lines of tests to validate that I can show and hide two panels based on the role of the authenticated user, I am going to have a really hard time drinking the kool aid.  More to the point, I am going to have an even harder time getting my boss to share it with me.