by Edward
06 July 2009 13:04
A preview of ASP.NET MVC 2.0 should be available within the next two months. After the first release, the team continued on building new functionality and improving the current release. The next major version of ASP.NET MVC after version 2 will likely drop support for Visual Studio 2008 and require the ASP.NET 4 framework.
The MVC 2 feature list:
I’m going to cut to the chase and just quote what Phil Haack posted on the CodePlex ASP.NET site:
- Areas - Provide a means of grouping controllers and views to build out subsections of a site in isolation.
- Asynchronous Controller Actions - Provide an asynchronous programming model for controller actions for improved scalability.
- Strongly-typed input helpers – Expression-based helpers for generating form fields against the model.
- Strongly-typed link helpers – strongly typed helpers for generating action links
- Support for Data Annotations - The default model binder will include support for Data Annotations attributes (a la Dynamic Data).
- Caching Improvements - Improve various caching scenarios.