ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Microsoft has released a new update for ASP.NET MVC 3 named  ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update won’t update the MVC 3 runtime and it  only updates the tooling for ASP.NET MVC 3. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update is also includes the NuGet 1.2 version. You can download the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update from here.

Changes in ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

  • New Intranet Project Template for  Windows Authentication.
  • HTML 5 checkbox to enable HTML 5 versions of project templates.
  • "Add Controller" dialog box can now scaffold controllers with views and data access code.
  • Project templates now include Modernizr 1.7
  • Project templates include updated versions of jQuery (jQuery 1.5.1), jQuery UI (jQuery UI 1.8.11), and jQuery Validation (jQuery Validation 1.8) .
  • Project templates now include ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 as a pre-installed NuGet package.
  • Project templates include JavaScript libraries as pre-installed NuGet packages.

The below screen shot shows the new ASP.NET MVC 3 project dialog box

mvc3toolsupdate_newproject

The below screen shot shows the new add controller dialog box

NewController

Published Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:02 AM by shiju
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# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:29 AM by florin

don't like the entity framework being stuffed into the project by default, but what can one do, it's politics....

# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:42 AM by shiju

@florin If you don't want to use entity framework, you can simply remove it from your project.

# ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update - Shiju Varghese's Blog

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 4:51 AM by DotNetShoutout

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# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:51 PM by Micah Smith

Awesome. Put html5boilerplate and 960.gs in there and you got my project start kit. Thanks for sharing.  

# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Friday, April 15, 2011 2:08 AM by elyor

super!!! :)

# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:34 PM by Joe

+1 on Html5boilerplate and 960.gs!

# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Monday, May 09, 2011 9:06 PM by dm

Good progress. Count me in for the html5boilerplate and 960gs. Should also include selectivizr to provide css3 selector support for IE6-8

# re: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:25 AM by Testking 650-195

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