Microsoft announced the final release of their second and popular ASP.NET MVC framework. This release comes up with some excellent features. Scott Gu’s Blog Series on MVC 2 describes the new features and extensibility of this new release.

To list out some new features 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

According to Scott Gu the final release of VS2010 will have in-built support for MVC 2.

Recommend Reading:

• Scott Gu on MVC 2 final release
• Scott Hanselman on MVC 2 final release

Download ASP.NET MVC 2 final release for Visual Studio 2008 and Release Notes from Microsoft Download Center

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