A while ago ScottGu mentioned in his blog that we would try and have an ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate by the end of this year. My team worked very hard at it, but due to various unforeseeable circumstances, I’m afraid that’s not gonna happen. Heck, I couldn’t even get into the office yesterday because the massive dumping of snow. I hope to get in today a little later since I’m taking next week off to be with my family coming in from Alaska.
But do not fret, we’ll have something early next year to release. In the meanwhile, we gave some rough bits to Scott Guthrie to play with and he did not disappoint yet again with a a great detailed post on some upcoming new features both in the runtime and in tooling.
Often, it’s the little touches that get me excited, and I want to call one of those out, Views without Code-Behind. This was always possible, of course, but due to some incredible hacking down in the plumbings of ASP.NET , David Ebbo with some assistance from Eilon Lipton, figured out how to get it to work with generic types using your language specific syntax for generic types. If you recall, previously it required using that complex CLR Syntax within the Inherits attribute.
Keep in mind that they had to do this without touching the core ASP.NET bits since ASP.NET MVC is a bin-deployable out-of-band release. David provided some hints on how they did this within his blog in these two posts: ProcessGeneratedCode: A hidden gem for Control Builder writers and Creating a ControlBuilder for the page itself.
ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery
In the meanwhile, Stephen Walther has been busy putting together a fun new section of the ASP.NET MVC website called the ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery.
In one of my talks about ASP.NET MVC, I mentioned a site that went live with our default drab blue project template (the site has since redesigned its look entirely). The Design Gallery provides a place for the community to upload alternative designs for our default template.
Happy Holidays
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Again, I apologize that we don’t have updated bits for you to play with, but we’ll have something next year! In the meanwhile, as the end of this year winds down, I hope it was a good one for you. It certainly was a good one for me. Enjoy your holidays, have a Merry Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, Over Consumption Day, whatever it is you celebrate or don’t celebrate. ;)