ASP.NET MVC 2 Released
- Friday Mar 12,2010 10:20 AM
- By wickasitha
- In MVC
ASP.NET MVC 2 is out.
You can download it directly, or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer:
- 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
- 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:
- 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

