what is the difference between 3 tier architecture and a mvc ? Are they same? Both have 3 layers i.e model, views and controller

Is it not bad practice to pass DTO object to service layer? For now my service layer method look like this: public save(MyEntity entity); Mapping values from DTO to business entity (MyEntity)...

What is the basic difference between MVC and 3-tier architecture?

It's considered good practice to have an exception for each layer of application (i.e. PresentationException, ServiceException, PersistenceException etc). But what if my service-layer directly call...

I want to know what Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.dll is and why we use this assembly. What are the benefits of this dll? I want to create a project on 3-tier architecture and am cur...

Trying to implement 3-layer (not: tier, I just want to separate my project logically, on one machine) architecture I've found so many different approaches that I'm confused, what's the best way (if...

I am writing a design document and people on my team are willing to do the move from ASP.NET WebForm to ASP.NET MVC. This is great, but I have a hard time to understand how MVC workswith in a 3-tie...

Each time I start working on a new ASP.NET MVC web application, I'm not sure whether or not to use DataAnnotations validation. Something about it feels wrong. For example, let's say I have a UserS...