July 2009 - Posts
This post is based on an early preview of ASP.NET MVC 2 and may be obsoleted by a future version of the product. Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 2 introduces the concept of Areas. Areas provide a means of dividing a large web application into multiple projects, each of which can be developed in relative isolation. The goal of this feature is to help manage complexity when developing a large site by factoring the site into multiple projects, which get combined back into the main site before deployment. Despite the multiple projects, it’s all logically one web application. One piece of feedback I’ve already heard from several people is that they don’t want to manage multiple projects and simply want areas within single project as a means of organizing...
The ASP.NET team just released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2. You can download it here . Today’s preview works with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008, and can be installed side-by-side on the same machine as ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (meaning they don’t conflict and your existing ASP.NET MVC 1.0 projects will not be impacted if you install it). If you have both ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 installed you’ll see two ASP.NET MVC project templates within Visual Studio 2008’s “New Project” dialog: The release notes that come with the ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview release detail how to upgrade existing ASP.NET MVC 1.0 projects to use V2 if you’d like to migrate them forward to take advantage of the new features. New Features ASP.NET MVC...
I was up in Redmond this week and stopped by to visit my Video Portal in Phil's Office . I wanted to see where I virtually sit. While I was there, Phil gave me/us/you a tour of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 . There's lots of cool stuff ( release notes are here ) and in this video Phil shows off Templated Helpers. There's a walkthrough of Templated Helpers in the Pre-Release Documentation as well . Remember, it's a preview, so there's still time to give feedback. Blog about it, complain in the forums , or bug us on Twitter . I hope you enjoy the video ! Related Links Download Page for ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 ASP.NET MVC Overview on MSDN ASP.NET MVC Reference Documentation on MSDN ASP.NET MVC website ASP.NET CodePlex site ASP.NET...
Four and a half months after my team released ASP.NET MVC 1.0 , I am very happy to announce that the release of our first Preview of version 2 of ASP.NET MVC is now available for download . Go download it immediately and enjoy its coolness. :) Don’t be afraid to install it as it will sit nicely side-by-side with ASP.NET 1.0. The release notes provide more details on what’s in this release and I’ve also updated the Roadmap on CodePlex , which describes the work we want to do in Preview 2 and beyond. After shipping ASP.NET MVC 1.0, the team and I spent time pitching in on ASP.NET 4 which was a nice diversion for me personally as I got a chance to work on something different for a while and it let ideas for ASP.NET MVC 2 percolate. But now I’m...
WARNING: This is obscure and you likely don't care. As Phil mentioned a little while back, ASP.NET MVC didn't ship with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, but will ship with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (and beyond.) When VS10 Beta 2 comes out, you won’t need to download a separate standalone installer to get ASP.NET MVC (though a standalone installer will be made available for VS2008 users that will run on ASP.NET 3.5 SP1). If you're using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and want to use ASP.NET MVC, you can go get a drop of MVC for just this purpose , up on CodePlex. This particular version of MVC is ONLY for use on Visual Studio 2010 Beta and is temporary. As such, it's got a placeholder version of 1.1, rather than 1.0. If you have existing...
The AJAX Control Toolkit is an incredibly popular set of controls that enable you to easily add JavaScript functionality to an ASP.NET application. The AJAX Control Toolkit has consistently been one of the top three most popular downloads from CodePlex since the birth of CodePlex (see http://www.CodePlex.com ). Lately, we’ve been thinking hard about methods of improving the quality of the AJAX Control Toolkit controls. We want to improve the quality of the AJAX Control Toolkit controls so that they match the very high standards of quality of the official ASP.NET framework controls such as the GridView and TextBox controls. In discussions of quality, the issue of testing immediately comes up. Right now, the AJAX Control Toolkit solution includes...
All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat. I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. Three are already live on Hanselminutes and I've got more in the hopper coming soon. The HaaHa Show - Hacking with Phil and Scott In this one, Phil is a hacker and he keeps breaking my websites. I fix them, and he breaks them again. Watch movie . .NET Rocks - Live! With Carl, Richard, Scott and Phil. This is a really silly show and was entirely content-free. ;) Watch movie . The Magic of Astoria - ADO.NET Data Services Me talking about REST and SOAP and ADO.NET Data Services. Watch movie . Making Your Blog Suck...
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