Today we’re releasing the release candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3. We’re in the home stretch now so it’ll mostly be bug fixes and small tweaks from here on out.

There are two ways to install ASP.NET MVC 3:

Also, be sure to check out the ASP.NET MVC 3 web page for information and content about ASP.NET MVC 3 as well as the release notes for this release.

Also, don’t miss Scott Guthrie’s blog post on ASP.NET MVC 3 which provides the usual level of detail on the release.

Razor Intellisense. Ah Yeah!

Probably the most frequently asked question I received when we released the Beta of ASP.NET MVC 3 was “When are we going to get Intellisense for Razor?” Well I’m happy to say the answer to that question is right now!

Not only Intellisense, but syntax highlighting and colorization also works for Razor views. ScottGu’s blog post I mentioned earlier has some screenshots of the Intellisense in action as well as details on some of the other improvements included in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC.

NuGet

As I wrote earlier, this release of ASP.NET MVC includes an updated version of NuGet, a free and open source Package Manager that integrates nicely into Visual Studio.

What’s Next?

Well if all goes well, we’ll land this plane nicely with an RTM release, and then it’s time to start thinking about ASP.NET MVC 4. There, I said it. Well, actually, I should probably already be thinking about 4, but seriously, can’t a guy catch a break once in a while to breathe for a moment?

Well, since I’m lazy, I’ll probably be asking you very soon for your thoughts on what you’d like to see us focus on for the next version of ASP.NET MVC. Then I can present your best ideas as my own in the next executive review. You don’t mind that at all, do you? Winking
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Seriously though, please do provide feedback and I’ll keep you posted on our planning.

Now that we have Nuget in place, one thing we’ll be focusing on is looking at building packages for features that we would have liked to include in ASP.NET MVC, but maybe didn’t have the time to implement them. Or perhaps simply for experimental features that we’d like feedback on. I think building NuGet packages will be a great way to try out new feature ideas and for the ones we think belong in the product, we can always roll them into ASP.NET MVC core.