Microsoft has released the final version of ASP.NET
MVC 2—a free framework that helps developers
build standards-based, SEO-friendly Websites.
In a March 11 blog post, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott
Guthrie announced that ASP.NET MVC
2 come less than a year after the initial version. ASP.NET
MVC follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC)
architectural pattern, which isolates domain logic from input and presentation,
enabling independent development, testing and maintenance of each. The popular
Ruby on Rails Web development framework also follows the MVC
pattern.
ASP.NET MVC
2 is now available for Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
with ASP.NET 3.5, Guthrie said. However, the
final release of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 will have
ASP.NET MVC
2 built-in—so users will not need an additional install to use ASP.NET
MVC 2 with them.
Said Guthrie:
"ASP.NET MVC
2 is the next significant update of ASP.NET MVC.
It is a compatible update to ASP.NET MVC
1—so all the knowledge, skills, code and extensions you already have with ASP.NET
MVC continue to work and apply going
forward. Like the first release, we are also shipping the source code for ASP.NET
MVC 2 under an OSI-compliant
open-source license."
Some of the new features and capabilities, according to Guthrie, include:
New Strongly Typed HTML Helpers
- Enhanced Model Validation support across both server and client
- Auto-Scaffold UI Helpers with Template Customization
- Support for splitting up large applications into “Areas”
- Asynchronous Controllers support that enables long-running tasks in
parallel
- Support for rendering subsections of a page/site using
Html.RenderAction
- · Lots of new helper functions, utilities and API
enhancements
- Improved Visual Studio tooling support
Moreover, ASP.NET MVC
2 can be installed side-by-side with ASP.NET
MVC 1—meaning developers can have
applications built with Version 1 and others built with Version 2 on the same
machine, Guthrie said.
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