Hot off the presses for PDC '09 is the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2008. Notice we have officially entered BETA!
You can download ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta from Microsoft Downloads here.
I highly encourage you to download the Release Notes from the same area as well, because there are a number of interesting changes:
- AsyncControllers, RenderAction, and Expression-based HTML Helpers are now part of the core code.
- Big Change to TempDataDictionary where keys are now removed only after reading and there is a Keep Method if you want to persist after the read.
- Change to the arguments being passed to Custom Model Binders, specifically IDictionary changed to IValueProvider ( from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 ).
- JsonResult only responds to HTTP Post Methods by default to mitigate JSON Hijacking.
And more...
We'll have to talk about these changes and more at the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group in the future.