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Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 4
In keeping with its releases of about once a month, Microsoft has released Preview 4 the ASP.NET MVC Framework. This release promises to start giving developers more higher level features aiding in better productivity.
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Following Real-World ASP.NET MVC Projects
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.
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.NET Framework Versions: Marketing vs. Reality
Since .NET Framework 3.0 Microsoft's versioning strategy confuses the community. Scott Hanselman explains the how and why of the drift between marketing and reality.
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SpringSource Announces Acquisition by Microsoft
In a surprise announcement, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson announced that SpringSource has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft. InfoQ interviewed Johnson to learn more about this acquisition and what it will mean for the future of both Spring and the .Net Framework.
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Microsoft Publishes ASP.NET MVC Source Code
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.
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Brings Out Many Value Additions
The ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 has been released last week and offers a lot of new features and many refactorings.
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ASP.NET MVC Framework Roadmap Update Heading into MIX08
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.
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MVC Contrib Now Offers 4 Alternative View Engines
MVC Contrib, a contribution project for the ASP.NET MVC framework hosted on CodePlex, now offers 4 alternatives to the default ASPX view engine.
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ASP.NET MVC Example with Northwind and Entity Framework Published
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.
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Create Installers for ASP.Net Projects with MSBuild and VS 2008
Microsoft released the final RTW version of the Web Deployment Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2008. This add-in uses MSBuild to package pre-compiled ASP.NET web applications and sites for deployment.
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Handling Large File Uploads in ASP.NET
Anyone who has experience with ASP.NET knows, the FileUpload control is often a savior and can also be an enemy other times. One of the biggest problems with the FileUpload control is getting it to handle large files which are bigger than the default 4MB.
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In a World of Web Framework Choices, Some Developers Still Build Their Own
Many developers faced with too many choices when selecting a web framework prefer to make the easy choice of using the framework they have used in the past or build their own. This is especially true for Java frameworks, as Neal Ford finds out; he also puts this paradox of choice in the context of other languages and draws some interesting and debatable conclusions.
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Editorial: Selecting a .NET Web Framework
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.
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Microsoft Releases December CTP of Project Astoria
Microsoft has announced the December CTP of Project Astoria, whose new name is the ADO.NET Data Services Framework, is available now as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release.
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Adding Ajax Support to the ASP.NET MVC Framework
The official CTP release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework does not include any support for AJAX, yet. In the meantime there are several samples available, which show how to add AJAX features to ASP.NET MVC applications.