Architecture
Hello all! I find myself looking at design patterns to see if there is anything new floating about. Of course the new MVC framework keeps popping up everywhere. While I have been aware that MS released the new MVC framework for ASP.NET a while ago, each time I have read about it I have found myself shying away from it in favor of MVP. I primarily didn't like the concept of ViewState being removed or the fact that we had to go back to the old ways of tossing variables into the sky via a post or get...
I felt the need to vent a little bit of frustration today as I spent an entire weekend trying my best to figure out how to get LINQ to SQL to support what I consider to be a fairly standard database design concept - many to many relationships. In my case I have a table of Permissions and a table of Accounts. Rather than storing a list of permissions in my Accounts table I simply wanted to store both Accounts and Permissions separately and then link them together with a linking table. I don't think...