Ah, so finally Microsoft has also taken the road towards the Model-View- Controller pattern. Scott Guthrie talks about it in his weblog. It was a matter of time ofcourse after the self- proclaimed success of Ruby-On-Rails and the popularity of unit testing. One of the most important motivations that Scott mentions in his articles are ‘seperation of concerns’ and ‘designed for testability’. Let’s take a look at these two: Seperation of concerns.
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I recently wrote an article about the concept and implementation of something which I call Role-Based Security in a Hierarchical Environment . It is a form of RBAC (Role-based access control). However, it also takes in account a context object (on which item is my function performing). And role permissions cascade down the context-tree. So having a permission on a certain context object means you also have permission for all underlying context objects (or not, depending on the role parameters).
