Umbraco gets easier with MVC

Working on Umbraco sites over the past couple of years has been a love/hate relationship. In the beginning it was one of those tools that had to be figured out with much digging into the code and the framework to achieve the smallest result. Once you found how something worked it all seemed to make sense. There were features that were easer than others and some harder than they should have been, like getting an image from the media library.

The good thing is with the current version and using MVC it has become even easier as a .NET developer. As most websites these days have moved on to the MVC framework it was a good decision of the Umbraco team to embrace this concept too. No more web forms and fiddly post back controls. It is now all about Models, Views and their Controllers. Makes things so much easier, now I only have to learn how to grab those media items again.