The final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. You can download and install it from the following locations:
Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Download ASP.NET MVC 2 from the Download Center
The final release of VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 will have ASP.NET MVC 2 built-in – so you won’t need an additional install in order to use ASP.NET MVC 2 with them. Continue reading…
This is cool. Yesterday Microsoft released RC1 of ASP .NET MVC. Check it out here. The RC1, which offers several new capabilities and bug fixes, is feature-complete. The final release is slated to ship next month barring any critical issues in the RC1, according to a blog posting by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s developer division.
The ASP.NET MVC RC1 release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (the UI or view from the business and application logic and backend data), as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD). Continue reading…
During the PDC sessions about Windows Azure features, lots of the code samples presented were using the new ASP .NET MVC style projects. It was really interesting to find out that oficially, ASP.NET MVC projects are NOT supported on Windows Azure. They’re not supported, but they can be used as long as you know the tricks and tweaks you need to do in order to make it work. I hope the ASP .NET MVC team will come up with a write up on this soon. Meanwhile you can ask Phil Haak, the guy in charge of the ASP .NET MVC what to do when you want to use ASP .NET MVC with Windows Azure.
Development Manager from Microsoft, Seshu Adunuthula, announced today the availability of the Community Technology Preview 2 of the project code-named “Velocity”. The goal of Velocity is to provide a robust and scalable distributed caching mechanism for .NET applications. ASP.NET applications is among the many uses of Velocity to provide a simple effective way to distribute caching over a huge number of clustered servers, integrating easily with declarative web.config entries.
CTP2 includes several new enhancements including High Availability, Performance improvements, PowerShell integration, Additional Configuration Store options and native 64 bit support.
You can download it here
In Preview 3 of ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, Microsoft is adding further to the client-side data story introduced in Previews 1 and 2, enabling new client-side data scenarios for both page and component developers. JSON data from the server can now be rendered as HTML on the client in a highly manageable and efficient way.
Crucial to this story is support for ADO.NET Data Services, which is included in a new script library: MicrosoftAjaxAdoNet.js. This integrates and updates the AJAX Client Library for ADO.NET Data Services library previously available as a separate CodePlex project.
They are providing client DataSource components for ADO.NET Data Services, and ASMX and WCF Web services, which integrate with the DataView. Also introducing a command bubbling model with DataView support for custom commands, and built-in support for item selection, which makes implementing Master-Detail scenarios much more intuitive than before.
This release contains a preview version of the following features (that are also described in our Roadmap document: ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap):
These are very early previews of features which the ASP.NET Team is working on and are not included in the Visual Studio 2010 CTP Virtual Machine at present. The code included in these releases has only been tested on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 / .NET 3.5 SP1.
