Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC has just hit the Beta Release ( finaly ). In the ASP.NET MVC Roadmap it is mentioned that the v1.0 RTM will be in Q4 2008 or Q1 2009.
Though in the CodePlex ASP.NET MVC WebSite it is still in Preview 5, that version ( preview 5 ) was considered quite stable – hence the recent release of the Beta version which can be downloaded from Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta
Brief Description
The ASP.NET MVC Beta release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime.
Overview
The ASP.NET MVC Beta release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (the UI or view from the business and application logic and backend data), as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD). The ASP.NET MVC framework defines a specific pattern to the Web Application folder structure and provides a controller base-class to handle and process requests for “actions”. Developers can take advantage of the specific Visual Studio 2008 MVC templates within this release to create their Web applications, which includes the ability to select a specific Unit Test structure to accompany their Web Application development.
The MVC framework is fully extensible at all points, allowing developers to create sophisticated structures that meet their needs, including for example Dependency Injection (DI) techniques, new view rendering engines or specialized controllers.
As the ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 3.5, developers can take advantage of many existing ASP.NET 3.5 features, such as localization, authorization, Profile etc.
BTW, a bit of history, I used MVC since Java started going for the Web ( using “Servlets” ) , and there was a very good implementation in ASP.NET 1.1, which you could download from: 