I've spent the last month working through books and tuts for Visual Web Dev 2010 / ASP.Net / MVC 3 / Razor and think I have a pretty good understanding now of how to create a MVC3 web app resembling the template gui.
1.) The (Code-first) Entity Framework wizards seem quite useful but also worrisome insofar as this much abstraction seems likely to lead to poor database "design".
2.) The "lack" of wysiwyg -- and especially Ajax components -- in MVC seem to infer the need to learn extensive javascript/jquery to do much client side.
Am I correct in these assertions?
Fwiw I'm trying to build a yellow pages like directory (so heavily database driven) where grid results appear in a "popup" page (ie so users can refine then "tear out" and save their search results say to print/save and take shopping with them). Frankly if I need build a complicated front end in Javascript (or perh ...
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