ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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

The below screen shot shows the new add controller dialog box

6 Comments

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

florin - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:59:09 PM

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

shiju - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:12:26 PM

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

Micah Smith - Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:21:08 AM

super!!! :)

elyor - Friday, April 15, 2011 11:38:36 AM

+1 on Html5boilerplate and 960.gs!

Joe - Friday, April 22, 2011 12:04:12 AM

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

dm - Tuesday, May 10, 2011 6:36:32 AM

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