On March 11th Microsoft released the RTM Version of ASP.NET MVC 2.  It has been almost a year since the released of version 1 last year of the now very popular alternative to writing web applications on the .NET Framework using the Model-View-Controller pattern (MVC). Please remember you can install ASP.NET MVC 2 side by side with ASP.NET MVC 1. Please follow the links below in order to dow... [More]

4 days ago Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2.  The last update to the upcoming update to the now popular MVC Framework for ASP.NET.  Please head over to this link to download it. Remember that this preview can be installed side by side with ASP.NET MVC 1. Happy programming

It's been a while since my last post.  Things have been kind of hectic at work and in life itself.  Overall is for the best.  But enough of me, today I saw that the AJAX Control Toolkit just got updated to a new version with a couple of new controls.   Please head to Codeplex to download the binaries and source code from this version. The new controls that were added to t... [More]

Telerik, a company that has been developing rich UI controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework released today its Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.  The extensions are Open Source, a first for Telerik as it embraces this approach hosting this solution on the Microsoft Open Source site Codeplex. This released is marked as a CTP (Community Technology Preview) and provides a nice UI extensio... [More]

Microsoft recently released the RC version of its now famous Web Platform Installer.  The Web Platform Installer is a compilation of powerful frameworks, servers, tools, database and popular open source web applications that can be installed from a single package and prepare your Windows machine to become a powerhouse in web development. You can download the Web Platform Installer directly h... [More]

I'm just starting to get my hands dirty con ASP.NET MVC and the Version 2 preview 1 is already out.  This new version comes with a lot of new features and while this preview does not contain all of the features expected it provides a first glance at some of them. The best news is that you can install the preview side by side with your ASP.NET MVC 1 installation and work independently one fro... [More]