ASP.NET MVC 2 Finally Released

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

 

Note : MVC 1.0 Release Date: 27^th Jan 2009

 

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. 

 

ASP.NET MVC 2 is the next significant update of ASP.NET MVC.

 

·         It is a compatible update to ASP.NET MVC 1 – so all the knowledge, skills, code, and extensions you already have with ASP.NET MVC continue to work and apply going forward.

·         ASP.NET MVC 2 can be installed side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC 1

·         Here are the instructions on how to update your existing ASP.NET MVC 1 apps to use ASP.NET MVC 2 using VS 2008 here. 

·         Note that VS 2010 has an Automated Upgrade Wizard that can automatically migrate your existing ASP.NET MVC 1 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2 for you.

 

 

ASP.NET MVC 2 adds a bunch of new capabilities and features. 

Here is the Scott Gu's blog series about some of the new features.  Some of the new features and capabilities include:

 

• New Strongly Typed HTML Helpers
• Enhanced Model Validation support across both server and client
• Auto-Scaffold UI Helpers with Template Customization
• Support for splitting up large applications into "Areas"
• Asynchronous Controllers support that enables long running tasks in parallel
• Support for rendering sub-sections of a page/site using Html.RenderAction
• Lots of new helper functions, utilities, and API enhancements
• Improved Visual Studio tooling support

 

Important Links:

 

You can learn more about these features in the "What's New in ASP.NET MVC 2" document on the www.asp.net/mvc web-site. 

A lot of new tutorials and videos shortly on www.asp.net/mvc that cover all the features in ASP.NET MVC 2 release. 

An updated end-to-end tutorial built entirely with ASP.NET MVC 2 (much like the NerdDinner tutorial that I wrote that covers ASP.NET MVC 1). 

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

Regards,

Arun Manglick