Facebook MVC (Republished)

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Welcome to Facebook MVC!

Obviously,
if you were able to find this article you are interested in developing
Facebook applications using the Model, View, Controller (MVC) design
pattern! If this is truly what you’d like to do then you’ve come to one
of the right places!

There are a few things that you’ll need to have before you can get started.

1. Visual Studio 2008
2. ASP.NET MVC Preview 3
3. Facebook Developer Toolkit 1.6
4. My Facebook Developer Toolkit MVC Addon

The
focus of this article is on how to setup a Facebook application using a
MVC approach using ASP.NET. The Facebook Developer Toolkit (FBDT) is a
great resource for people that are interested in developing a Facebook
.NET application. FBDT is basically a .NET wrapper of the Facebook API.
Unfortunately, the current approach taken by the FBDT for building web
applications is straight WebForms & as such they use a class
inheritance model which does not support an ASP.NET MVC application
easily. The Facebook Developer Toolkit MVC Addon, makes supporting a
Facebook ASP.NET MVC application a bit easier by adding support for
web.config based configuration, & pre-controller-execution
FacebookAPI setup via an Action Filter.

Please bear with me as I add more details to this article & to CodePlex