13.3. An Existing MVC Application

I think it is useful to start by looking at what a popular application built using MVC looks like. You might be familiar with the Stack Overflow (SO) site.

SO is a popular programming web site in which users can ask programming questions to be answered by other users. Other users then answer the questions. These answers are then voted on by other users; those with the most votes (ideally the best ones!) move to the top of the answer list.

Let's take a look at SO now:

  1. Open a browser, and go to http://www.stackoverflow.com.

  2. Take a look around the site, paying particular attention to the URL of each page.

  3. Imagine that you were creating an application similar to SO but were writing it using web forms. How might you ...

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