The Microsoft Technet site has made available a bunch of ebooks in epub, mobi and pdf formats At this moment there are 11 books available, here is the list ASP.NET Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Hosting Provider using Visual Studio…

If you are running an ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Sharepoint site, grab the patch for the ASP.NET Padding Oracle vulnerability Some info: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow informa…

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,...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released. A couple of day ago ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 was released but this is the real deal.

You can download ASP.NET MVC 1.0 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en

Changes Since RC 2

The following changes were made in this release.

• jQuery 1.3.1 was replaced with jQuery 1.3.2 in this release.

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Scott Guthrie (AKA The man!) has posted on his blog that you can download a free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial in pdf format. The book is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives" license – this means you can share, distribute, print, or hand it out to anyone.

This is what is covered in the book

Create a database

Build a model with validation and business rules

Implement data listing/details UI on a site using Controllers and Views

Enable CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data form entry

Use the ViewModel pattern to pass inform...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate has been made available for download, you can get the download here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141184&clcid=0x409

You can grab the release notes here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=137661&clcid=0x409

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate is the last public release of ASP.NET MVC that Microsoft will ship prior to the final '1.0' release. Microsoft expects to ship the ...

I recently needed to implement a shared session between a few different applications, and didn't find a whole lot on the interwebs about how to do this (I'm starting a second life as a web developer though, it could be that I just don't know all the ter…

Now here is some exciting news if you are a web developer in a MSFT shop. Microsoft will ship jQuery with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio.

John Resig writes:

Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to expand it with the use of jQuery. This means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (which will include jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation).

Additionally Microsoft will be developing additional ...