Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.

New Features in ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM

The following features are new since the RC release of ASP.NET MVC 2.

Templated Helpers Allow You to Specify Extra View Data

ASP.NET MVC 2 now includes new overloads of the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods. These overl...

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 has been released and is available for download.

For those that don't know what ASP.NET MVC 2 is. ASP.NET MVC 2 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view,...

If you download ASP.NET MVC from Microsoft, install it and create a MVC website you might run into a couple of gotchas in regards to the database. First of all ASP.NET MVC use SQL Server Express by default in the connection string. So if you were to run your ASP.NET MVC website, then clicking on login you would get this error:

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and...

In my previous post (not so long ago). I talked about the Actionlink and it not being very refactor friendly because of all the magic strings in it.

But there was a strongly typed version out there somewhere that didn't work all the time but I couldn't find it at that time.

Well it is hiding here and you can dowload it by clicking on the ASP.NET MVC v1.0 Futures link.

I installed the brandnew (nearly anyway) release version of ASP.Net MVC v1.0. I don't think that will cahnge much for my previous examples since the code all still works. Apart from having to reset the references that is.

So in my previous example I removed some of the magic strings. But it seems that some other magic strings are here to stay for a while at least.

And this is it.