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...

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...

Why make your users interact with URLs such as: http://companyweb1/mainsite/repository/main.html when they could just type repository?

The Mess

Your corporate intranet probably has a lot of different resources on it. Wherever those are, users have to gain access to them somehow. And there are several issues that can reduce ease of access, whether the resources are whole web sites or individual web pages.

If resources are mainly grouped together on one site, then you have to deal with problems like:

• A possible unfriendl...

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is ready for download

Changes Since RC 1

Anti-Forgery Helpers Support Setting Cookie Path

DefaultModelBinder Validation Messages Are Now Localizable

New ValidationSummary Method Overload Supports Header Message

jQuery Updated to Version 1.3.1

Setup Requires .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Download ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp...

So I got it installed at home on a windows XP machine. It installed really quickly but you have to close Firefox so it can import all the settings from that. I’m not even sure it asked me if it could do that. I’m actually writing this blogpost in chrome.

So it loads the pages really fast and it renders the pages mainly in one go. I think it loads those pieces from the same server in one go.

Most things work. Except for the checkbox. Somebody made a mistake and it renders the checkbox as a radiobutton but I’m sure they will get that fixed one day.