ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

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I apologize for not blogging this over the weekend as I had planned, but the weather this weekend was just fantastic so I spent a lot of time outside with my son.

If you haven’t heard yet, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for MSDN subscribers to download. It will be more generally available on Wednesday, according to Soma.

You can find a great whitepaper which describes what is new for web developers in ASP 4 which is included.

One thing you’ll notice is that ASP.NET MVC is not included in Beta

The reason for this is that Beta 1 started locking down before MVC 1.0 shipped. ASP.NET MVC will be included as part of the package in VS10 Beta 2.

Right now, if you try and open an MVC project with VS 2010 Beta 1, you’ll get some error message about the project type not being supported. The easy fix for now is to remove the ASP.NET MVC ProjectTypeGuid entry as described by this post.

We’re working hard to have an out-of-band installer which will install the project templates and tooling for ASP.NET MVC which works with VS2010 Beta 1 sometime in June on CodePlex. Sorry for the inconvenience. I’ll blog about it once it is ready.

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30 responses

Will • May 18th, 2009
Well done for getting this fixed, but sheesh! What's wrong with the VS2010 project that this couldn't be in the beta? It's only beta 1 for goodness sake, and MVC has been at that quality for ages.
I know you're the good guys - how do you put up with this?
Mark Hoffman • May 18th, 2009
Glad to see that MS is really putting their weight behind MVC....Not wanting to read too much into this, but it kinda seems that MS pats you guys on the head; lets you build your cute little MVC thingy but doesn't want you to interfere with shipping their "real" developer products and the next flavor of web forms.
I know you guys are passionate about ASP.NET MVC, but it's hard not see the notable absence of MVC from the beta as a sign that rest of Redmond continues on the Clueless Train and still doesn't see MVC as important.
Haacked • May 18th, 2009
@Will @Mark I updated my post with a better explanation. The reason it's not in Beta 1 is that the quality lockdown happened a while ago, before we shipped MVC 1.0. We'll be in the box for Beta 2.
JP • May 18th, 2009
Good Lord man, never apologize for spending time with your son!
fschwiet • May 18th, 2009
Sounds like main product needs to lock down sooner, as they need more room to land. I hope the MVC team can handle a sharper descent :)
Will • May 18th, 2009
Thanks for the update - it will probably take more than that to convince me that VS2010 isn't a sort of geological disaster! Actually, my general belief is that VS has made itself far too dependent on far too much stuff, so I shouldn't really complain if the deps I want aren't in the box...
BB • May 18th, 2009
Thank you for the post. Strange though; the PDF docs stated MVC and Azure would be in there, so I was looking forward to not manually creating things.
Question - if the guid is removed, I assume it will need to be added back in the get the MVC project features to function again (i.e. Add View etc.), is this correct? Is there any danger with adding/ removing, depending on what environment is being used?
Also - if using a current MVC project and compiling with VS 2010, is there any danger of changed version numbers that would cause breakage with deployed items? I.e. App compiled and deployed, now server must have .NET 4.0 beta installed.
Thanks!
Conjure • May 18th, 2009
I see that ASP.NET 4 has some new features which make it competitive with MVC from a routing standpoint. I use some Devexpress utilities and they have been somewhat slow on adapting to MVC. I'm curious if they are simply waiting for the next version to appear. In either case, I am using all flavors of ASP.NET now (webforms and MVC) to cover all the bases.
Guy • May 18th, 2009
Wow, the conspiracy theories run amok with this one!
Mark J. Miller • May 18th, 2009
I love what you guys have done with MVC. I've been using it since preview 1. I've was reading the "what's new" for ASP.NET 4.0 and wondering what the roadmap is for MVC 2.0. Will VS 2010 just ship MVC 1.0 with MVC 2.0 coming out-of-band? And is there any news on what kind of goodies we can see in 2.0?
Peter.O • May 18th, 2009
The MVC team has been nothing but open with the community. So, I wonder why I shouldn't take their word for it. Features miss deadlines all the time. And let's face it! VS is a very large product with respect to feature set, team sizes, etc. Size requires structure, folks.
MVC enjoys one of the hottest profiles at MSFT right now. Even a VP blogs this thing regularly, for crying out loud. Moreover, there's a workaround hack for Beta1, an OOB installer is in the works and we are promised that MVC will make Beta2. So, I don't know where the apprehension is coming from. We can't wait to 'stick it to The man', can we?
ASP.NET MVC is a cool, cool one! We haven't had any sweetness of that kind (the team, the tool, community focus, etc) from MSFT in recorded history. But, hey, guys, let's not start a holy war yet. Better still, let's not even start a religion out of this in the first place.
Haacked • May 18th, 2009
@BB If you remove the ProjectTypeGuid, you will lose the tooling support. When we add the tooling support back in, you can add the GUID back in and the tooling support will work.
If you work on a current MVC project (aka MVC 1.0) using VS10, make sure you're targetting the 3.5 framework and you should be fine.
Ragini • May 18th, 2009
nice article though!
but what about those like me who use the Visual Studio Team System 2008, as a collaborative project. I recently downloaded it from the official microsoft site- http://bit.ly/OxdIK
kindly review this as well.
BB • May 20th, 2009
@Haacked
Thanks, one follow-up regarding using VS 2010 and the removal of the GUID. If the project type is removed, will code behinds not get added to new pages? Will the intellisense still work then for manually created aspx pages with no codebehind, and manually adding the model type? i.e. Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<SomeStrongType>"
thanks
Scott Galloway • May 20th, 2009
Love the conspiracy theories! Truth is that MVC would have had to lock down a lot earlier to get into Beta 1; which is a massively complex undertaking with integration of content from around 50 different teams, take a fair bit of time!
To have made the Beta 1, MVC would have been way less mature than it is right now.
Colin Desmond • May 20th, 2009
Phil,
Many thanks for MVC, the book (excellent) and this Blog!
I have upgraded by VS2008 MVC to a VS2010(b1) as suggested here, but when I try to run it I get the following error:
Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Helpers' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Line 1: <%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage" %>
Line 2: <%@ Import Namespace="Helpers" %>
Line 3: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "www.w3.org/.../xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Line 4: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
I am definitely targeting 3.5. This happens when I use either IIS or the Dev Web Server. Any ideas what might be going wrong?
Rickj • May 20th, 2009
VS 2010 is the greatest little beta toy for a beta junkie like me the only thing I have a problem with is I got such a good install right of the hop for a beta I don't want to monkey around with it so I think I'll wait for the installer one Question I have on the next release of MVC is there going to be support for pulling pictures out of a database ie: a logged in member has a profile with a picture tied to a UserId I've been looking for an artical, walkthrough or example for about a month now with no luck and if you think about it if your building a dating site, job site , forum to list a few it is almost standard to have a picture
Just somthing to think about keep up the good work guys
Thanks
Mikael Henriksson • May 26th, 2009
Thanks for sharing, I hate hacking visual studio so I'll wait for the installer :)
DonSleza4e • May 27th, 2009
Migrated to VS2010b1
IDE every time crashes when I trying to RedirectToAction("Index", "Message")
and this action
Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<LRMUP.Models.MessageClass>"
When I remove <LRMUP.Models.MessageClass> - everything work fine
Targeting: .Framework 4.0 (well, I migrated only because of new C# 4.0 cool features)
DonSleza4e • May 27th, 2009
As temp solution I using next:
view is Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage"
and accessing model values as
<%=((MessageClass)Model).title %>
this works fine for me. However need to be changes to 'good style' when crash will be resolved
sebastian • May 28th, 2009
Also included in VS2010 (and included in this beta release) are significant extensions to Dotfuscator CE that support
* the injection of feature and session monitoring (streaming usage data to a developer-specified endpoint),
* the injection of application expiry dates, and
* the injection of tamper defense and notification.
* Opt-in/Opt-out logic can also be injected.
Microsoft first announced this functionality at PDC2008
www.microsoft.com/.../10-27PreEmptivePR.mspx
If you want a detailed walk through, check out Bill Leach’s blog entry at blogs.preemptive.com/.../...tudio-2010-Beta-1.aspx
For a MSFT employee blog entry on the same topic, check out blogs.msdn.com/.../...d-partner-opportunities.aspx
JO • May 30th, 2009
What is the best way to extend the "ASP .NET MVC Template" template. I would like to create additional directories. I could do it independent of the "ASP .NET MVC Template" template but I would like to extend your template.
Mike • June 7th, 2009
VS2010? I havent even installed VS 2008 yet. At some point this has to slow down. The pace is absurd and illogical.
Francesco • June 12th, 2009
I am experiencing the same issue than DonSleza4e with strongly typed view pages.
I tried to add the pageParserFilterType attribute on pages node in web.config, but the problem is still there.
Is this a known bug?
Francesco • June 12th, 2009
Well, I just disabled the historycal debugger and everything seems working now
2010 Registry Cleaners • January 9th, 2010
Nice post - it's good to keep reminders like this about your software development days.
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Can't wait for this new release. Thanks!
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This is an excellent article. Very easy to understand and looks great in our application. Thanks so much for taking the time to document this.
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VS 2010 is the greatest little beta toy for a beta junkie like me the only thing I have a problem with is I got such a good install right of the hop for a beta I don't want to monkey around with it so I think I'll wait for the installer one Question I have on the next release of MVC is there going to be support for pulling pictures out of a database ie: a logged in member has a profile with a picture tied to a UserId I've been looking for an artical, walkthrough or example for about a month now with no luck and if you think about it if your building a dating site, job site , forum to list a few it is almost standard to have a picture
Just somthing to think about keep up the good work guys
Thanks
james wei • November 9th, 2010
I've spent 4 hours trying to remove Visual Studio 10 beta and .Net framework 4.0 from my system after upgrading to Win 7, all the microsoft installer/uninstaller processes where hanging in a loop ... but after 4 hours of tweaking reg keys, and killing installer processes to manage to uninstall VS 10, I can't really say how I've managed to do it ... Everything seems fine right now and everything else is working properly with no issues. Lucky me I guess, a full reinstall of everything would have taken me 2 days not 4 hours.