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ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released – Channel 9 Video and Hanselminutes Podcast 224, Oh My!

July 28, 2010 Comment on this post [4] Posted in ASP.NET | ASP.NET MVC | Channel9 | Podcast | VS2010
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Phil and friends released ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 today. I snuck into the office of Phil Haack and Morgan the Canadian Intern to talk about the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and some of the cool "futures" stuff that Morgan (and our fleet of interns) is working on. This video isn't only about MVC as Morgan's working on some cool CSS Sprites stuff that works nicely in WebForms that you should check out as well.

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Also, my two-hundred-and-twenty-fourth podcast is up and I talk more in depth with, yes, you guessed, it, Phil Haack. More detail in a less shaky-camera format.

What's new in ASP.NET MVC 3?

Note that installing ASP.NET MVC 3 won't mess up your ASP.NET MVC 2 applications.

  • Razor Syntax View Engine - Cleaner view syntax
  • Dynamic View and ViewModel properties - passing data between controllers and views using dynamic rather than a dictionary
  • "Add View" Dialog Box Supports Multiple View Engines - You two can be in this box.
  • Service Location and Dependency Injection Support - Get your DI hooked into controller factories, dependency injection, action filters and View Pages.
  • Global Filters - put filters on the all control methods
  • New JsonValueProviderFactory Class - Model bind directly to JSON-encoded data
  • Support for .NET Framework 4 Validation Attributes and IValidatableObject - Easier validation including validating one property based on another.
  • New IClientValidatable Interface - Discovering at runtime if the client supports validation.
  • Support for .NET Framework 4 Metadata Attributes - Support .NET 4 specific attributes like DisplayAttribute
  • New IMetadataAware Interface - Write your own attributes to contribute to the ModelMetadata creation process.
  • New Action Result Types - HttpNotFoundResult, HttpStatusCodeResult.
  • Permanent Redirect - More easily return 301s for Actions, Routes or any URL.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 Link Round-Up

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July 28, 2010 2:44
Would love to see coverage of Morgan's CSS-sprite generator/manager when it becomes available. Nice.
July 28, 2010 10:06
What's up with the version number hike? I can understand ramping up Silveright versions to catch up with flash but what are you guys catching up to with MVC?
July 28, 2010 22:31
What exactly is changing with regard to JSON model binding? Many people in the community -- myself included -- have noticed that JSON model binding has worked for them in MVC 2 but there are a few edge cases that are broken.

In particular, for the love of god, please tell me that you guys have fixed JSON model binding to collections of models? I have a bunch of gross code that enables this that would be really fantastic to remove :).
July 29, 2010 17:09
I missed the boat on version 1, just bought a book on version 2 that I haven't gotten through, and we're already talking about version 3. Yikes!

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