newdotnetlogo_2_thumb Today I’m happy to write that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTW (Release To Web) is now officially released.

This was one of several announcements ScottGu made at the Mix 09 conference today, which I unfortunately missed because I was on a plane to Vegas enroute to Mix 09. I was busy  back at the mother ship making sure everything was in order for the release.

Woohoo!

It’s been nearly a year and a half since I joined Microsoft and started working on it and what a ride it’s been.

Some highlights during that time:

With ASP.NET MVC, we wanted to release early and often providing a lot of transparency with our design process. We made a lot of changes based on user feedback. All in all, I counted 10 releases:

  1. December 2007 CTP
  2. Preview 2
  3. Preview 2.5 (April CodePlex release)
  4. Preview 3
  5. CodePlex Preview 4
  6. Preview 5
  7. Beta
  8. RC 1
  9. RC 2
  10. RTM!

A great way to learn about ASP.NET MVC is to go to the website, http://asp.net/mvc/. Also be sure to check out the free eBook which contains Chapter 1 of Professional ASP.NET MVC. This chapter contains an end-to-end walkthrough of building an application with ASP.NET MVC.

We also have an updated set of documents on MSDN worth checking out.

A great way to install ASP.NET MVC is via the new Web Platform Installer. I highly recommend it. Not only can you install ASP.NET MVC using it, but many other free applications such as one of my favorites, Subtext!