Almost exactly one month ago, we released the Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3. And today we learn why we use the term “Candidate”. As Scott writes, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta was released just this week and as we were testing it we found a few incompatibilities with it and the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC that we had just released. That’s when we, in the parlance of the military, scrambled the jets to get another release candidate prepared. You can install it directly using the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) download the installer yourself from from...
Hello there. :) On Tuesday, we announced the release candidate for ASP.NET MVC. While there is much new in there to be excited about and many many bug fixes, there were two changes introduced in the RC that broke some scenarios which previously worked in the Beta, as reported by customers. We’ve updated the Release Candidate with a refresh that addresses these two issues. You can use the recently released Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 to install ASP.NET MVC RC Refresh. It happens to be a handy tool for installing not just ASP.NET MVC, but everything you might...
In my last post, I announced the happy news that the Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC is available. In this post, I say mea culpa for a known bug within this release. This bug is a consequence of a change we made in our default template. We know have a content placeholder in the <head> section of the Site.master page. <head runat="server">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">
<title></title>
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<link href="../../Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
The benefit here...