ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

March 12, 2010 5:35 AM Comments [20] Posted in ASP.NET | ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC 2 is out. This means, it's released. It's final. Use it. Love it.

You can download it directly, or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer:

ScottGu has many details in his post. There's lots of resources to check out:

What's new in ASP.NET MVC Whitepaper
- ASP.NET MVC 2 adds a bunch of new capabilities and features. ScottGu has a blog series about some of the new features, and will be covering them in more depth in the weeks ahead. 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
Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Application to ASP.NET MVC 2
ASP.NET MVC 2 Content Map on MSDN
ASP.NET MVC 2 Code Sample Downloads on MSDN

If you have questions or problems with any of the samples, please post your comments on the MVC Forum

MVC AJAX Application Download
- Walkthrough: Adding ASP.NET AJAX Scripting to an MVC Project
MVC Areas Application Download
- Walkthrough: Organizing an ASP.NET MVC Application using Areas
MVC Asynchronous Controller Download
- Using an Asynchronous Controller in ASP.NET MVC
MVC Basic Walkthrough Download
- Walkthrough: Creating a Basic MVC Project with Unit Tests in Visual Studio
MVC Controller Download
- System.Web.Mvc.Controller class
MVC Data Views Download
- Walkthrough: Using MVC View Templates with Data Scaffolding
Using the Templated Helpers to Display, Edit and Label Data Download
- Walkthrough: Using Templated Helpers to Display Data
- System.Web.Mvc.Html.DisplayExtensions class
Validating Model Data Using DataAnnotations Attributes Download
- How to: Validate Model Data Using DataAnnotations Attributes

Enjoy!

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Friday, March 12, 2010 5:47:29 AM UTC

Just awesomeness! congratulations to the ASP.NET MVC Team!

Friday, March 12, 2010 8:47:37 AM UTC

ASP.NET MVC 2 is awesome but I just hate the WebPI since it screwed up my IIS settings..

Andrei Rinea

Friday, March 12, 2010 8:48:42 AM UTC

I forgot this : What are the differences since the last drop?

Andrei Rinea

Friday, March 12, 2010 8:57:42 AM UTC

It means that we can run MVC 2 on real web servers ?

Barbaros

Friday, March 12, 2010 9:42:58 AM UTC

Congratulations to the team!! This framework is just awesome!!!

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Friday, March 12, 2010 11:32:28 AM UTC

Congrats on getting this out. My one wish is that you do the tutorials and samples using Visual Basic this time round. My feeling is that so far MVC has been targeted at C# devs only. (Look at NerdDinner.com) When will we be able to install?. At the moment you cannot install on a system that has VS2008 and VS2010RC.

Alan Michas

Friday, March 12, 2010 2:58:45 PM UTC

Congrats MVC team!

Chad Myers

Friday, March 12, 2010 4:18:51 PM UTC

Congratulations to the team and thank you for this awesome framework!

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Friday, March 12, 2010 4:45:20 PM UTC

Ok, I have to make some very noob questions (I just started with ASP.NET MVC)... from the browser/client point of view, is there any difference between calling a page/fragment handled by an AsyncController and one handled by a standard Controller?

From what I see in the samples, AsyncController gives you 2 things:

- A nice helper for multi-threading parallel operations (sort of like BackgroundWorker for Windows.Forms)

- A better management of the ASP.NET thread pool for high-traffic applications

Are there any other advantages that I am not seeing?

Filini

Friday, March 12, 2010 6:25:01 PM UTC

Congratulations to the team !

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Friday, March 12, 2010 11:14:31 PM UTC

The MSDN content/walkthrough for "MVC Areas Application" contains the wrong code in the samples that and the download is unrelated to a walkthrough for Areas (cut paste errors). Just an FYI....

Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:12:18 AM UTC

Thanks to MVC Team.

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Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:33:29 PM UTC

Congratulations on the fine release MVC Team!

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Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:36:13 PM UTC

Congratulations MVC Team!

Monday, March 15, 2010 11:11:37 AM UTC

Nice! Does this work on Visual Studio Web Express? I couldn't get the RC to work, but MVC1 worked perfectly.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:20:21 PM UTC

100% of the content on the main asp.net MVC site is video.
Please consider adding some alternative content because a) some people work in shops whose firewalls block all streaming video and b) some people like myself work in shops where the computers have the audio cards disabled and c) some people just don't like watching videos and would prefer to have a text article or walk-through that we can print out and read.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:05:00 PM UTC

Congrats, All the improvements are great i am in love with the following
“Areas” and new helper functions, utilities, and API enhancements

Asad Ali Butt

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:05:55 PM UTC

Hope to see some more thoughts from you

Asad Ali Butt

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:44:01 PM UTC

cheers, MVC team.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:36:50 PM UTC

100% of the content on the main asp.net MVC site is video.
Please consider adding some alternative content because a) some people work in shops whose firewalls block all streaming video and b) some people like myself work in shops where the computers have the audio cards disabled and c) some people just don't like watching videos and would prefer to have a text article or walk-through that we can print out and read.

I agree with this guy! i don't have sound on my computer at work, so the videos arn't to useful. and in general i prefer reading to watching videos when it comes to coding.

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