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If you crack open the project file in an ASP.Net MVC 2 application (in notepad or unload your project and then click “ Edit *.proj” ), you will notice an interesting line. <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews> This is an option to enable a post build task that will run the Asp_net compiler. This command will compile your aspx pages and report any errors in the pages at design time. Ordinarily the compiler runs before your site loads for the first time after making a change. This is why you can debug a website or web application with errors in the markup and not see an error until actually running your site. So why is the option set to false by default? I obviously want errors at design time before I run the site! Well, if you turn...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live. You can download it right now here . Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release. If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources. Alternatively, check out the official site for tutorials, videos, and more. MSDN Documentation for MVC is also now available: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=145989 Since ASP.NET MVC RC1 we made some changes to the set of properties available to T4 templates – many names have changed (for clarity and consistency) and some properties are no longer available (because the same information is available through other properties). See the following table for the full list of properties available to templates...