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The Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework second technology preview was released during MIX08 in March but has since released an update to their source code on April 16. This means there are many things going on with those involved in the project at Microsoft as well as those in the community. People are not creating just sample code but creating real applications now.
Microsoft opens up a CodePlex project to share the source code of future ASP.NET releases. Currently the ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 sources are available for download.
The ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 has been released last week and offers a lot of new features and many refactorings.
Scott Guthrie recently outlined to the readers of his web log, the road map for the ASP.NET MVC Framework as developers look for releases heading into the MIX08 Conference March 5-7, 2008.
The popularity of Ruby has lead to the creation of such web frameworks as Ruby on Rails, Merb and Camping, among others. A new web framework known as Waves was recently released which has some features that should attract Ruby developers to give it a try.
MVC Contrib, a contribution project for the ASP.NET MVC framework hosted on CodePlex, now offers 4 alternatives to the default ASPX view engine.
Brad Abrams, founding member of the CLR and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft, published a good example of how developers can leverage the MVC Framework with some of the new tools from Microsoft.
In the past selecting a web framework for .NET languages was a non-issue. Your choice was between pure ASP.NET or a hybrid design that mixed classic ASP with ASP.NET. And even that was seen as a temporary hack rather than a conscious choice. But with the introduction of ASP.NET MVC, .NET developers have to start making the hard decisions.
