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Creating an MVC Project in Visual Studio 2010

// June 9th, 2009 // 7 Comments » // MVC

Earlier today Phil Haack announced that the Asp.Net MVC installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available on CodePlex along with the bonus of some basic snippets for use with MVC projects. This is exactly what I have been waiting for before installing Visual Studio 2010, so I decided to give it a shot and report back on my experience. I’m happy to say that the basic experience went flawlessly for me, though it appears that may not hold true for everyone.

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ASP.Net MVC Goes Beta!

// October 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // MVC

I discovered via DotNetKicks this afternoon that the ASP.Net MVC framework’s beta release is now available for download from Microsoft.com. No release or source code is yet available from the CodePlex project, but I expect we’ll see it there soon enough. Congratulations to the team at Microsoft, RTM is knocking at the door!

Download ASP.Net MVC Beta

For those who, like me, have been following along with each preview push at the CodePlex project, I found a list of changes made between Preview 5 and Beta buried at the bottom of the Release Notes document. Here they are in their entirety: (more…)

MVC.net Release TODAY!

// December 9th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // MVC

Scott Guthrie posted a comment to his fourth entry in his ASP.Net MVC tutorial series stating:

Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:00 AM by ScottGu

Hi Panjkov,

>>>>>> is this correct link for asp.net extensions preview that will be shipped (today?) go.microsoft.com/fwlink (taken from Link)

No – that is for the ADO.NET entities bits (which is something different). Keep an eye on www.asp.net in a few hours – the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (which includes MVC) will be posted there shortly.

Thanks,

Scott

This is great news and rather unexpected. Time to hit up www.asp.net and F5 F5 F5…!

Update: As everyone is aware by now, I'm sure, the MVC Framework has been released. You can get it here.

BlogEngine.net 1.2.5 Scrapped

// December 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // Blogging

Apparently this just isn't my day when it comes to project released that I've been looking forward to. Mads Kristensen posted to the BlogEngine.net project's website stating that the 1.2.5 release of the project (a service pack, really) will no longer happen and that all of its changes will be rolled into a 1.3 release, due before the end of the year.

Dissapointing, yes, but really for the best. The 1.2.5 release fixed quite a few bugs, but none of them show stoppers (well, for me) and 1.3 looks to add some new features to the equation.

Coming in 1.3:

Full mono support (right out of the box)
Updated Metaweblog API including support for creating/editing pages in WLW.
Improved Blog importer/exporter, including support for easily switching between XML and SQL backends
New extension manager to managing extensions and their settings.
New events for extension writers
Support for mobile devices
New themes

I'm especially looking forward to the mobile device support and further Live Writer integration.

MVC Framework Delayed

// December 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // MVC

ScottGu has posted a comment on his latest blog post saying that a last minute bug has delayed the release of the new .Net MVC Framework, which was previously slated for release today in the form of a CTP. From the sound of things we are now looking at a Monday release if further testing does not reveal any further issues.

I'm sure I speak for almost all of us that are awaiting this highly anticipated release when I say that all of their hardwork is appreciated and while the delay is dissapointing, what is a few more days? The full text of Scott's comment is below:

"Quick update to everyone – we found a last minute bug late last night, and had to-do a rebuild of the bits. This unfortunately means we won't go live today as origionally planned. The team is working hard, though, to try and get it out ASAP (they will be here this weekend finishing the test pass).

I'll do a blog post announcing it as soon as it is live. As penance I'm also doing a long Part 4 blog post this weekend that covers editing and form posting scenarios, which combined with the first three tutorial posts should provide a pretty good foundation for working with the bits.

Many apologies for the delay – almost there now though,

Scott"