N Rao Lakkakula’s Blog

Community Technology Preview Release of MVC Framework is released. Go get it from  http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/

Some documentation is available at http://quickstarts.asp.net/3-5-extensions/mvc/default.aspx

For Help or See what others thinking  see forums at http://forums.asp.net/1146.aspx

I am thinking of posting a tutorial pretty soon …..comparsing side by side of Rails and ASP.NET MVC….. stay tuned.

Some of the new features in VS 2008 that makes you happy are

(List taken from wonderful Blogs of ScottGu and Brad Adams)

• Support for .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 runtimes
• JavaScript intellisense
• Much richer JavaScript debugging
• Nested ASP.NET master page support at design-time
• Rich CSS editing and layout support within the WYSIWYG designer
• Split-view designer support for having both source and design views open on a page at the same time
• A much faster ASP.NET page designer - with dramatic perf improvements in view-switches between source/design mode
• Automated .SQL script generation and hosting deployment support for databases on remote servers
• LINQ support

Go check it out!

Recently there is some news about Microsoft building a MVC framework to go with ASP.NET and run on NET 3.5 framework. You could see the first detailed blog entry about it in ScottGu’s blog today. Looks promising with no postback & viewstate baggage.  I will be updating my impression on this one soon.