I love Asp.Net MVC, that isn’t a secret. Although the framework isn’t perfect, it is a great leap in the right direction. When I start an Asp.Net MVC project there are things I always have to do just to jump into the meat of the new site. These things include replacing the ControllerFactory with a IoC enabled ControllerFactory, changing routing, and other boiler plate actions. This is where MVC Turbine comes in, and I am liking it more and more the deeper I dive into it. Javier Lozano, the creator, defines MVC Turbine as

MVC Turbine is a plugin for ASP.NET MVC that has IoC baked in and auto-wires controllers, binders, view engines, http modules, etc. that reside within your application. Thus you worry more about what your application should do, rather than how it should do it.

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If you consider ASP.NET MVC as a stock Nissan 370z, then MVC Turbine is the Nissan 370z with the Nismo package. Ultimately the same car, but the tweaks make the ride so much more fun to drive. Everyday I find something cool in this framework, but these are my favorite features so far.

Services Registration and IoC

I love IoC, because it makes testing your applications easier and shrinks your code base over the long run. What I hate is having to wire it up every time I start a new project. With MVC Turbine, it is already handled for you. Just create classes that implement the IServiceRegistration interface. You will be passed your favorite IoC and you can do what you need to do to register your services.

Inferred Actions

If your controller actions just return a view, then you are going to love this. You can create a controller class with no actions, and MVC Turbine will look in your views folder and display that view. Check it out here.

Route Registration

When you have a large Asp.Net MVC application, then you’ll probably have a lot of routes. MVC Turbine allows a great facility for registering routes, while keeping you project clean.

I can definitely get behind MVC Turbine and I recommend you check it out.