ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1

    Now we can use Razor in MVC Views, and SQL Compact looks awesomely easy to use. At first I thought MVC was just MS overcomplicating stuff again but now that I’ve looked at it it’s really cool actually. I like being able to create strongly typed views, that way you get an error if the stuff you’re throwing at your view isn’t expected by it.

    When I was working in PHP and CodeIgniter (which is good by the way) I had a few problems with not remembering what it was my view code was expecting. Also all the IDE’s I tried had horrible intellisense/code completion for CodeIgniter.

    The validation and scaffolding in MVC 3 also looks really good, and you can use SQL Compact for testing or whatever and switch your DataProvider over to mySQL or whatever with Ninject when you're ready to deploy.

 

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ASP.NET MVC 3

As you probably already surmised, ASP.NET MVC 3 is the next major release of ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC 3 is compatible with ASP.NET MVC 2 – which means it will be easy to update projects you are writing with MVC 2 to MVC 3 when it finally releases.  The new features in MVC 3 build on top of the foundational work we’ve already done with the MVC 1 and MVC 2 releases – which means that the skills, knowledge, libraries, and books you’ve acquired are all directly applicable with the MVC 3 release.  MVC 3 adds new features and capabilities – it doesn’t obsolete existing ones.

ASP.NET MVC 3 can be installed side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC 2, and you can install today’s “Preview 1” release on your machine without it impacting existing MVC 2 projects you are working on (they will continue to use MVC 2 unless you explicitly modify the projects to retarget them to MVC 3).  When you install “Preview 1” you will have a new set of ASP.NET MVC 3 project templates show up within Visual Studio 2010’s “New Project” dialog – choosing one of those when you create a new project will cause it to use MVC 3.

Below are details about some of the new features and capabilities in today’s “Preview 1” release.  Unless otherwise noted, all of the features I describe are enabled with the preview build you can download and use today.  More ASP.NET MVC 3 features will come in future preview refreshes as we flesh out the product more and iterate on your feedback.

View Improvements

ASP.NET MVC 3 “Preview 1” includes a bunch of view-specific improvements.

New “Razor” View Engine

ASP.NET MVC 3 “Preview 1” includes several nice controller-specific enhancements.

Global Filters

New Dynamic ViewModel Property

New ActionResult Types

JavaScript and AJAX Improvements

Model Validation Improvements

Dependency Injection Improvements

Click here to download ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1.  Post feedback/issues about it in the ASP.NET MVC Forum. Read more at weblogs.asp.net

 

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