ASP.NET MVC 3 Release

Today, Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division, announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 on his official weblog.

ASP.NET MVC 3 comes with significant feature updates which make the web development on ASP.NET sheer pleasure. The source code is now available for download or you can also upgrade the second version of the framework using MVC 3 Project Upgrade Tool. Among the major improvements are:

• Razor: it’s a new view-engine option which minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and speeds the workflow.
• JavaScript: ASP.NET MVC 3 enables richer JavaScript scenarios and makes use of emerging HTML5 capabilities.
• Validation: validation enhancements of different features introduced in ASP.NET MVC 3 ease to a great extend the work with data.
• Dependency Injection: the third version of ASP.NET MVC provides better support for applying Dependency Injection (DI) and integrating with Dependency Injection/IOC containers.

ASP.NET MVC 3 includes manifold other great improvements aimed to reduce the amount of code and make it cleaner. It also worth mentioning that alongside with ASP.NET MVC 3 release Microsoft announced the release of several other products:

• NuGet
• IIS Express 7.5
• SQL Server Compact Edition 4
• Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0
• Orchard 1.0
• WebMatrix 1.0

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