ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

ASP.NET MVC 2 is out. This means, it's released. It's final. Use it. Love it.

You can download it directly, or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer:

ScottGu has many details in his post. There's lots of resources to check out:

• What's new in ASP.NET MVC Whitepaper
  • ASP.NET MVC 2 adds a bunch of new capabilities and features.  ScottGu has a blog series about some of the new features, and will be covering them in more depth in the weeks ahead.  Some of the new features and capabilities 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 sub-sections of a page/site using Html.RenderAction
    • Lots of new helper functions, utilities, and API enhancements
    • Improved Visual Studio tooling support
• Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Application to ASP.NET MVC 2
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Content Map on MSDN
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Code Sample Downloads on MSDN

If you have questions or problems with any of the samples, please post your comments on the MVC Forum

• MVC AJAX Application Download
  • Walkthrough: Adding ASP.NET AJAX Scripting to an MVC Project
• MVC Areas Application Download
  • Walkthrough: Organizing an ASP.NET MVC Application using Areas
• MVC Asynchronous Controller Download
  • Using an Asynchronous Controller in ASP.NET MVC
• MVC Basic Walkthrough Download
  • Walkthrough: Creating a Basic MVC Project with Unit Tests in Visual Studio
• MVC Controller Download
  • System.Web.Mvc.Controller class
• MVC Data Views Download
  • Walkthrough: Using MVC View Templates with Data Scaffolding
• Using the Templated Helpers to Display, Edit and Label Data Download
  • Walkthrough: Using Templated Helpers to Display Data
  • System.Web.Mvc.Html.DisplayExtensions class
• Validating Model Data Using DataAnnotations Attributes Download
  • How to: Validate Model Data Using DataAnnotations Attributes

Enjoy!

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