Introduction

From FubuMVC Wiki

FubuMVC is a "Front Controller" pattern-style MVC framework designed for use in web applications built on ASP.NET.

Note that it has nothing to do with the ASP.NET MVC framework.

FubuMVC is built upon the core ASP.NET library (HTTP handlers, modules, caching, etc). FubuMVC's primary view engine is the ASP.NET WebForms view engine. But FubuMVC is an alternative to the "Page Control Lifecycle" of WebForms. FubuMVC encourages you to use "ASPX" pages as merely dumb HTML renderers that contain no serious logic (or only display/render logic).

Indeed the entire point of the "Front Controller" pattern (and therefore FubuMVC) is the separation of logic from presentation.

There are many MVC frameworks, including several for the .NET/ASP.NET platform. FubuMVC is different from most of them in that it has a strong focus on "pluggability" and on conventional configuration. FubuMVC's framework design places a strong emphasis on compositional object-oriented design (versus a strongly inheritance-based architecture).

The practical benefit of this is that you can easily, and to a greater degree, replace/override, extend, and customize FubuMVC for your particular situation. This is why FubuMVC was originally created: because of frustrations experienced when trying to override functionality in some of the other MVC frameworks.

As an aside, you may also wish to investigate OpenRasta, another .NET-based MVC framework that follows some of these same design principles