Eilon Lipton's Blog

Have you ever wanted to create a Visual Studio project that only contained static files and didn’t contain any code?

You might have heard in recent news that the last ever GUID was used up. The GUID {FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF} was just consumed by a soon to be released project at Microsoft. Immediately after the GUID's creation the word spread around the Microsoft campuses around the globe. Microsoft's approximately 100,000 worldwide employees then started blogging, tweeting, and facebooking about the dubious "achievement." The following screenshot shows GUIDGEN (the Windows tool for creating GUIDs) with the last ever GUID.

ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM has just been released! More info on ScottGu's blog.

NOTE: There is an updated version of this tool that is compatible with ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM. 

NOTE: There is an updated version of this tool that is compatible with ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM.

Update 9/9/2012: Scott Hanselman has just blogged about the new Friendly URL system for ASP.NET Web Forms. It's a much fancier, and admittedly much smarty-ier way to do routing and other features for Web Forms. Also, that feature will be officially supported, unlike my original sample code! 

For years applications have been built that accept user input. Most user input starts out as a string. Strings are a universal representation of arbitrary data coming into a computer. However, most data does not remain as a string for very long. User input often ends up getting parsed or converted into another data type, such as an integer, Boolean value, or a date.

Today is a happy day: we released ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2. We're getting ever-so-close to the final (RTM/RTW) release of ASP.NET MVC - it won't be long! We think we fixed all the highest priority issues so that everyone out there can build ASP.NET MVC applications without worrying that we're going to make some sudden changes that will break you. Please see Phil's blog post announcing the release.